We have lost 22 Navy Seals in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. The Navy Seals are the cream of the crop, the very best our country has to offer, and the loss is devastating. I don't understand. On Drudge one headline says "Millions Watch Jersey Shore Opening," a program about teenage malcontents. Recently there was the bruhaha about Amy Winehouse joining "The 27 Club," a club of rock star drug addicts who overdose at the age of 27. As far as I am concerned, they are not fit to shine the shoes of the Seals. As a country we really need to get our priorities straight. Troops are fighting and dying to preserve our freedom. We are free to choose how we spend out time, to be a beneficial presence or to watch The Jersey Shore. It's all temporary.
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
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