A Brief Diversion Into Politics

Wednesday March 26, 2008 

I have no intention of delving into politics on a regular basis. There are plenty of political blogs, and I don’t feel like adding to the mix on anything approaching a regular basis. This morning, however, I came across a piece on the Art of Manliness blog that really made me sit back and think.

Entitled “What Happened to Wartime Sacrifice?“, Brett & Kate McKay delve into the sacrifices that my grandparents’ generation made during World War II and then to the sacrifice free world that we live in today.  While it’s true that World War II was less politically ambiguous than the Iraq War and occupation seems to be, I can’t argue with the premise that we here at home have been asked to sacrifice nothing, while our men and women in uniform are potentially sacrificing everything.  It really made me stop and think.

No matter what you think of the Iraq War, you owe it to yourself to read this piece and really think about it.

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