image: Hundreds of crosses, honoring soldiers who were killed in Iraq are shown at the ‘Arlington West’ display on Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, California – Monday, July 4, 2005. (AP Photo/ Jae C. Hong)
Cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, and European Tribune.
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from Reality Demands
by Wislawa Szymborska
Perhaps all fields are battlefields,
all grounds are battlegrounds,
those we remember
and those that are forgotten:
the birch, cedar, and fir forests, the white snow,
the yellow sands, gray gravel, the iridescent swamps,
the canyons of black defeat,
where, in times of crisis,
you can cower under a bush.
What moral flows from this? Probably none.
Only the blood flows, drying quickly,
and, as always, a few rivers, a few clouds.
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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 Bagdhad Burning
read Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches
read Today in Iraq
read this soldier’s blog
witness every day
