WAR

Sunday March 18 Chronicle. Headline on page A8
"Suspects history sparks debate about multiple tours". Let me tell you what it should spark. Debate about fighting stupid wars, that's what. A song from the Vietnam war days has a line that goes like this: "When will they ever learn?" Obviously we haven't learned yet and probably never will. I'm almost 79 years of age and it seems that most of those years my country has been in a state of war. To paraphrase Shakespeare, "The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft intered with their bones". So many wars. So many bones. How sad.