Professor Sharon

On this day when we remember our Veterans – my father one of them – I want to say thank you to the children of those veterans.  Children who didn’t necessarily get a choice about whether their parent was a soldier and was sent to war.

I did a bit of Internet research, and only came up with a few websites whose stats I might believe:  19 children who lost parents in last week’s Fort Hood killing, perhaps as many as 5 million Iraqi children lost a parent, and close to 1200 American children lost a parent to the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars in the past 8 years.

That’s one too many for me.