Wes’s Life

I had a com­ment posted yes­ter­day to my post about One Day Blog Silence, and I won’t do you – the read­ers – a dis­ser­vice by let­ting you see what was writ­ten or the person’s web­site. Yet, I’ll give you the gist of his tirade. He felt that this tragedy should and is over­shad­owed by the war in Iraq and that the sol­diers never receive any form of memo­r­ial like con­vo­ca­tions, half-​masted flags and var­i­ous memo­ri­als.

Where this reader has severely messed up his argu­ment is that our sol­diers signed up for a job – where they are com­pen­sated – that they have to real­ize could leave them injured or dead. How­ever, no one apply­ing to go to col­lege ever assumes that they will be put in the same sit­u­a­tion and shouldn’t be. The true tragedy is that these people were only trying to better them­selves through a solid edu­ca­tion.