As a veteran and a father, I have learned to hate war and despise its end results. Whether there is such a thing as a "justifiable war" is debatable, and the fact that the Iraq War was horribly unjustified is without intelligent debate.
As a progressive independent, I have become as obsessed with the primary and election news as anyone. Today, however, the reality of the cost of this war and the heroism of our troops was brought home to me by another news story. I watched with awe and no small amount of tears as the parents of another wonderfully brave, young soul were awarded what is our country's highest military honor.
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