Reply #1: Words are all I have. . . . [View All]

[Tansy_Gold]

. . . .and they aren't enough to describe my outrage.

BF got an email yesterday morning from one of the boys -- now grown up -- he used to coach in junior high and high school sports. The email was to inform him that another of those boys -- now 30 years old and father of toddlers -- had been killed in Afghanistan last week. BF did not take it well.

I never knew the kid, or his brothers (who were also in sports and also coached by the BF back in the day), or his parents or his wife or his friends or anyone else. My outrage therefore can only be a tiny fraction of what they might feel if they could feel anything through their grief.

This is not the America I grew up in, and I grew up in the America of Johnson and McNamara, Nixon and Haldeman, the America of Kent State and My Lai. What we have now is something far, far, far worse. That America knew enough to be collectively outraged. I don't think this one does.



Tansy Gold