ok now it's personal

a kid my brother played baseball with in high school was killed in afghanistan this week. i'm not going to get into everything i think about the war and our country's role in the world and yada yada yada. i'm just sad that kyle and hundreds of americans (and thousands of afghans and iraqis by the way) are dead with more to come and there seems to be no end in sight.

i better stop there.
j