From NYT [here – about Stephen Colbert going overseas]
“There was a general feeling among soldiers there, the board member said, that Americans had largely tuned the war out, that the economy had vacuumed up all the attention even though there are around 135,000 troops still here and still doing dangerous work… Soldiers here are all too aware of America’s attention span about this war, several of them at the taping said.”
Colbert in his camo suit.
And a map on CNN showing where our troops are currently deployed: here.
Ok, off to school – French and Am Lit (!) exams today, followed by bdubs… yummm… and then a run (hopefully). Ciao!
~ r
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