Llove Letters

It is amazing the attention we, as a Nation, pay to some things while nearly (not completely, but almost) ignoring others. Here, now, another example getting National headlines. While our finest men and women are serving, hurting, and dying on battlefields in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, and while we might publish their names and stories on page one above the fold in newspapers, and every evening take pause during the networks nightly news broadcasts to honor the fallen, we instead focus on an individual who has “betrayed his State, his colleagues, his family, and his Party.” We don’t want to hear that which rips at our hearts, brings tears to our eyes, and…