A grim marker

Much as I oppose the war, I can spare more than a thought and a prayer for the American soldiers. Why we fix on big round numbers like 2,000 I don't know. Losing 1990 soldiers was a terrible tragedy for the families who lost the 1990th soldier. In turn the 1991, 1992, 1993 marks were just as final and tragic for other families.

Losing a family member to war is an experience most of us don't know directly, but even we in that number have some sense of it. Somewhere in our family tree is someone who did not come back from a war, and as children, most of us knew an aunt with a sad smile she saved for a picture on the mantle, or a great grandmother who spoke longingly of an uncle you never knew...

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