This photo of my family was taken on Christmas Eve when my brother Brad was on leave from the Army. A friend took the photo and just sent it to me tonight. This is also the week that my brother (center, no beard, non-infant) ships out to Iraq. I’m certain that this picture will be very important to my family and I over the coming year while he is deployed.
Carry on in the political sphere for or against the U.S. presence in Iraq as much as you want, but I hope everyone involved remembers that while politicians of all stripes gathered their rhetoric and went on TV my brother and people like him gathered their things and went into harm’s way.