This morning on NPR

This morning on NPR they did a piece about soldiers.  At one point there was a woman talking of the memorial tree garden that this unit had made for its dead since 2001.  It was now a small forest of 300 trees.  She then says while half sobbing that their deaths had meaning.  Meaning.  Think about that.  Their DEATH had meaning.  Not their lives.  Not their future.  Not that they were someone’s kid or husband or father.  No that they died with a meaning.  How the fuck do you do that?  It pissed me off.  That sort of fallen heroes thing is just mythology.  What purpose is there in death?  Isn’t it life that has meaning?  Hell I don’t know.  It just pissed me off.

Later,
Sam