One of the Most Moving Signs

I am so afraid that sometimes we concentrate only on the American lives lost when there is so much misery being caused by this administration's swaggering mistakes.
Those of us who do not have a loved one fighting, but sit in our comfortable homes, drive our gas-guzzling cars, shop in our large stories,have electricity and running water, who can send our children to school and who can go to work in relative safety - we have no idea of the sorrow we have inflicted on this land.

I am reminded of the remarks of a citizen of Gettysburg viewing the battlefield on July 4, 1863 after the armies had departed. She surveyed the thousands of dead and wounded and saw the destruction of farms and fields. "...this blighted land."

This blighted nation and it's people - Iraq and us.