In Memory…..
November 10th, 2009 | 
Author: I watched the memorial at Ft. Hood today. Just passing thoughts that hit me:
*Is it wrong, after so much gunfire, to wish someone could take a trank rifle to the talking heads, especially Mike Gerson and Wolf Blitzer? So much talk about how solemn it is while never shutting up long enough to give a watcher a chance at solemn thought was cloying, annoying, and downright repetitive. The mute button saved my sanity.
*The very Christian religious milieu was almost overwhelming.
*In spite of White House statements about news of an upcoming troop surge in Afghanistan being premature, upon hearing his speech at Ft. Hood, I believe Obama has decided to commit to a long time American presence there. This bows me with grief even more than the sight of 13 helmets and boots.
*CNN? You suck. You couldn’t even keep sound and picture aligned—this should not have looked like a badly dubbed kung-fu flick.
*Could we get some agreement on the data on the victims? Some have a different hometown listed every other display?!
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Well, we know what a self-torturing masachist I am, right? I HAD to watch. But I did mute significant portions of talking head-crud. I really did want to stuff a towel in Blitzer’s mouth.
I couldn’t watch it live. The boots and helmets did me in, right off the bat.
And, today being Veteran’s Day, the radio station played that old hokey “Ballad of the Green Berets” as I was driving home from the Dr. I had to pull over. And I’bve always HATED that song….