Monday 24 March 2008 at 1:55 pm
CNN is
reporting that the American death toll in Iraq has reached 4,000. That is
ten times the casualties that America suffered during the first eight years of our involvement in Vietnam, and almost double the total deaths in Vietnam from our initial involvement through 1965.
Estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths range from a conservative 80,000 to a liberal 90,000.
Friday 07 March 2008 at 08:19 am
Believe it or not the Lutheran school that I spent the latter years of my elementary school years attending was actually quite a bit more liberal than the Presbyterian school that I had attended up until halfway through the fourth grade. But that’s not saying much.
There were two corners of the soccer field that couldn’t be seen from playground beat of the recess supervisor. One of them was called “The Corner” where the school bullies lured their prey, and where playground justice was doled out. The other corner was home to Alex, Jeff, and Brian, three kids in my grade who would grab their backpacks and make a run for the field the moment the lunch bell rang. Once there they would open their bags and remove the large, thin, books and the polyhedral dice that were the foundation upon which their fantasy world was built. Hiding there, in the shadow of the church, epic battles were fought, dragons were slain, and priceless treasures were lost and won by these three friends as they rolled their fates and recorded their triumphs on pencil and paper, one eye on the game, the other stealing furtive glances in the direction of the playground.
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