"There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature." ~ Barbara Kingsolver, Novelist.
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- Approximately 2,000 US military personnel have died in Iraq.
- Nearly as many as were killed on 9/11.
- This does not include military personnel from other nations
- Nor does it include the horrific deaths of hostages
- Nor does it include the horrific deaths of civilians.
- Check out Gideon Polya's blog on avoidable mortality. You mightn't like it. You might think he comes on a bit strong, maybe a bit extreme. But t-h-i-n-k about it. Who keeps count of civilians? Who keeps count of those who don't need to die? Gideon does.
