Honouring Vets

Remembrance Day is not a retrospective. While solemnly placing carnations against walls with listless names, let us not be afraid to reflect on the present situation in acknowledging the dishonour of our government and unremitting Administration, to continue a war that is without honour, an immeasurable fallacy.

Right now. Two terms. Four years on.

Sunday is not about deceit and Halliburton and Yellow Cake or Bin Laden or yet another smoking gun. There are just too many to name. The powerlessness of Americans is the ultimate paradox of its founding principles.

For those noble men and women who still believe in patriotic duty, bless their romantic hearts as their lives lay before them losing limbs and minds in the sands of the Middle East. For those of us born into the guild of middle class, white America, who can only scoff at the notion of serving one's country, let us embrace just for a moment, how arbitrary life can be...