I was just commenting at dinner that if you looked around the room almost all there have forgotten or no longer care that we are at war.
Great article here and the ending is what gets me, because they are just that.."kids". Our youth bears the cost of freedom for all of us.
"Before he addressed the crowd that had assembled in the St. Louis Hyatt Regency ballroom last November, Lt. Gen. John F. Kelly had one request. "Please don't mention my son," he asked the Marine Corps officer introducing him.
Four days earlier, 2nd Lt. Robert M. Kelly , 29, had stepped on a land mine while leading a platoon of Marines in southern Afghanistan. He was killed instantly."
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