postscript to excerpt -- War

I know my last post was too long. 


So is the war in Afghanistan. So was the war in Iraq. And so on.


Recently, newspapers have published statistics revealing that veterans from these wars are committing suicide at the rate of one a day.


How abysmal. 


The wars are devastating soldiers in the field and at home -- and our economy.


When will we ever learn?


The last (too long) post chronicled the wars in my life -- that began when I was an infant and persist -- so many decades later-- only changing their locations and the numbers of deaths.


Always too many. 


I think this post is too short but this is all I want to say.