My daughter's softball coach has a son who is going to be deployed to Iraq in the fall. He'll be guarding a dam up in northern Iraq--just the kind of place the insurgents like to try to blow up.
I want to raise my kids to question authority. At the same time, I stand in admiration of the people who have taken an oath and who follow through, no matter what. Their lives are infinitely dear, and a President who takes that lightly--who doesn't go to funerals, who doesn't allow pictures of military coffins, who would rather that we all forget the price some are paying for this war--does not deserve to be in the White House. Especially not if he is a rich frat boy who never showed up for Guard duty.
But in the presence of my daughter's coach, I will keep my mouth shut. It's the least I can do.