We Americans love round numbers. 50th anniversaries... 10 year reunions... bicentennials...
... and up until now, this war dead figure has been just so messy. Why should we waste our beautiful minds on these oddball numbers?
Well, folks,
we just passed the 1900+ mark, and we're on our way to a nice, disgusting, infuriating round figure: 2000 brothers, sisters, moms, dads, sons, business owners, breadwinners, Dems, Repubs, lovers, friends...
fucking D E A D.
We'll hit this number by Christmas, I reckon, or maybe just into the New Year.
Will that do it? How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see? Is the answer in that nice round figure of 2,000 Americans dead?