a Memorial Day update

We tend to think in terms of the number of deaths .. death is final.

But the maimed will be living with their injuries for the rest of their lives, and there are many many more of them -

maybe ten times more, maybe even more than that..

I have read (don't remember where, maybe the New Pravda) that the injuries of survivors in the Iraq War tend to be

much more severe than the injuries of survivors in earlier wars - faster evacuation from the battlefield, better medicine..

Wounded are surviving with injuries that would have meant certain death in Vietnam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kki1kpFCBh0

It's not just the dead who deserve our gratitude and remembrance.

Requiescant pace.