It's Memorial Day in the United States, so we're taking a moment to thank the Coalition and the United States armed forces in particular for their hard work and sacrifice.
It's become all too acceptable today to swallow the line of the defeatists and look upon our soldiers as victims, thugs, or dupes, but when all the propaganda and selective reporting is washed away, these men and women are the line that stands between our living in a liberal democracy and enslavement under the likes of these:
Update: Christopher Hitchens presents his take on the problems of memorials.
Update: Ben Stein adds some perspective.
Update: Ben Stein adds some perspective.
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