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People. i was reading this again last night. this is from an incredible book, the good soldiers from david fingle and follows one man and his unit in iraq in 2006. this is a passage about the colonel going to visit a soldier who served under him in san antonio at the burns unit. he decided to start with duncan crookston. he put on protective gown and boots and gloves and walked toward a 19-year-old soldier whose left leg and right leg was gone, right arm was gone, left lower arm was gone, ears were gone, nose was gone, and eyelids were gone and who was burned over what little remained of him. so the costs of that war are going to be with us for decades and for generations. one of the things that i was interested in last night, richard, in listening to the president s speech is that he sort of danced around the structure that is left in baghdad, which i am told, by ....