1 http://www.lesttheybeforgotten.com/ I read about it at the live blogger from NRO online a few days ago. http://buzz.nationalreview.com/074337.asp Turning in my thesis tomorrow...mad scramble doing footnotes now.

2 A soldier's monument is his achievement. My monument is a South Korea brilliantly alive while North Korea stays dark. Feather Merchant monuments ususally ring hollow.

3 I think that this is the basic idea for the memorial: http://www.largeart.com/War_Memorial.asp http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-05-25-memorials-cover_x.htm I do think it would be nice if we could create that sort of memorial in each fallen soldier's town. It would be good to honor the fallen and pay respects without the constant childish bickering that the right and left are constantly engaged in. That said, that article really read like the ramblings of an anti-rational partisan. Promoting the underlying delusion/dishonesty that the protesters are blaming the troops for what the administration has done has completely separated them from reality. The most ironic bit is that the anti-war 'protesters' call themselves 'Camp Reality.' The left has their own problems with namecalling and dishonest rhetoric, which isn't helping either. This quote was a gem too: "The Right, for the most part, doesn't protest- we're not angry all the time." It's almost as if they don't see that the pundits aer constantly playing on people's fear and anger, drumming up their emotions and clouding understanding. But I'd like to think that nobody on could really be that stupid.

4 I don't understand why someone would want others to die for a lie just because one of their own family members died for a lie. Is this a new kind of pathology?

5 ken: Perhaps the error lies in an assumption you're making. Think hard and take a guess.