Kids and War

There was a recent Yahoo News article that went by the board much too fast.

Teenage girl is questioned by Federal agents about a Bush threat

Read it for yourself.


She put up some statements about Bush on myspace.com that went too far at least from the Feds perspective. To set the picture, she is 14, white, and she was pulled from a molecular biology high school class to be harshly questioned by two Secret Service agents about these anti-Bush postings of hers.

I want to comment on an aspect of the Iraq War that is completely overlooked. The young people in our country, the people that are under the age of 18, all of them right on down to the little ones have to deal with this war also. There are a lot of American troop casualties out there. Over 20,000 at this point, and that is a lot of people.

These injured soldiers and their families are in our American communities, and almost all of us at this point know someone directly, or with a one or two degree of separation, connected to fighting in this war. We're all pretty close to it at this point in some way. That would include all of the kids too.

These kids are feeling stress about this war as well, just like the rest of us. Some of them have relatives, parents, friends, that are in it and maybe got hurt there. The way they express this comes out in all sorts of ways. Let's try to not forget about this ok. Let's try to show that we are an advanced society here.

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