We've had another local boy from Augusta County KIA. They brought his body into the funeral home yesterday. A local newscaster opined that, Since the start of the War more than 3,100 men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces, have been killed in Iraq.I don't know what they expect. Less than 1% of the US population is serving in the armed forces. Small towns have something that our big cities and metropolitan areas are apparently lacking. We call them SMALL TOWN VALUES. We value country, family, God, and our responsibilities to those things. Many times more than in the big cities it appears that we can actually pass those values on to our children. Lance Cpl. Daniel Todd Morris of Raphine, Augusta County, Virginia, USofA was just such a young man. By all accounts he was a young man anyone would be proud of parenting. He was a young man with whom any Marine or soldier or sailor or airman would have been proud to serve.
It's a reality we've come to expect during war time.
But that doesn't make accepting it any easier.
Across the country cities are flying flags at half staff.
Their way of honoring their local heroes, who paid the ultimate price defending their country.
Nearly half of the U.S. Military fatalities in Iraq have come from small towns
Labels: Culture
¶ posted by The Editor 4:37 PM
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