image: Marines prepare to fold the flag draped over the casket of Lance Cpl. Robert Thomas Mininger, of Sellersville, Penn., during his funeral service at Arlington Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Monday, June 20, 2005. Mininger, who was 21, died in Iraq from wounds suffered in an explosion during combat. (AP Photo/ Susan Walsh)
Cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, and European Tribune.
image and poem below the fold
from Station (Chapter) 23
Hiraizumi
Untitled Haiku
by Matsuo Basho
The summer grasses
All that remains
Of brave soldiers dreams
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The transliterated original:
natsukusa ya
tsuwamonodomo go
yume no ato
Commentary on the poem is here
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support the Iraqi people
support the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC)
support CARE
support the victims of torture
support the fallen
support the troops
support the troops and the Iraqi people
read `This is what John Kerry did today,’ the diary by lawnorder that prompted this series
read Riverbend’s blog – `Bagdhad Burning’
read Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches
read Today in Iraq
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