Whether you’re a dove or a hawk, this article, by a man whose son served as a medic in Iraq, is an important read.

Falling Star: If this nation doesn’t reconnect with its military, we will lose more than our wars | OregonLive.com.

What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics,

Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

–Walt Whitman, “The Wound Dresser”