Do you ever cry when you read email?

Okay, maybe it has something to do with my age - but it seems that when I read these heart strumming stories of soldiers from Iraq being escorted home in the cargo bay of airliners, with their parents aboard, and the passengers response to these valiant young men (apart from whether or not you agree with the war, these young men are serving rather than running), I end up a weeping mess. Recently a story came to me about a soldier who died the same day as Anna Nicole Smith. It seems the ANS story keeps going and going and going, tying up news broadcasts, while the death of these young men are related in "Another four Marines died in Iraq today as a result of roadside bombs. Now on to other story, defense attorneys in the Anna Nicole Smith custody case have...blah, blah, blah.......".

I read that it is the military at war in Iraq and America is at the mall. Sad. And with the story at Virginia Tech, I imagine we will have our sensibilities pounded on again, about violence, war, guns and how we need to be a more 'tolerant' people. We talk a good talk - and another soldier bleeds on foreign soil for our right to hit the sales at Old Navy.