Op-Ed Contributor
The Flags of Our Sons
By BILLY SHORE
Published: August 4, 2006
Washington
Billy Shore is the founder of Share Our Strength, an antihunger organization.
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WHEN you fly as often as I do you learn to mind your own business as soon as you take your seat. But that wasn’t possible once I saw the military honor guard boarding US Airways’ 1:45 p.m. flight from Boston to Washington earlier this week.
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The mom and dad stepped away from the man in the T-shirt and to another window, still not touching, their movement synchronized by grief. They waited until the marine in charge came back up from the runway to escort them to a government vehicle. I went to my car and drove to work with no ambition for the day other than to be worthy.
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It’s real easy to forget the price being paid by real people. Blame the body politic’s failure in civic virtue by not supervising what our politicians are doing, the stupidity of ALL those politicians, gubamint ineptness, humanity’s passions, and a bunch of other reasons. But bear in mind that the piper will be paid!
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