We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/05/from_an_email_regarding_perspective_on_casualties.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:39:30 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Looking back on the day that I left for my first tour in Vietnam, I can vividly remember my parents' fear that they would never see me again. With the passage of time, and with children of my own, I have come to realize that it is the fear of the unfamiliar that makes combat deaths so frightening to people, and particularly to parents. We are pretty blasé about letting our kids do wild things on playground equipment - because we did it and survived. We don't get too concerned about illnesses because we have all had them and recovered,... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/05/from_an_email_regarding_perspective_on_casualties.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/05/from_an_email_regarding_perspective_on_casualties.html Thu, 27 May 2004 08:31:50 -0600 Al Qaeda will never win! I remember when we were kids as well, our parents used to have measles and chickenpox parties so that everybody built up an immunity to them, ( after a heck of a lot of scratching ), now they give them an MMR jab that still has not been properly tested and is making a lot of kids ill!!! :o/ http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/05/from_an_email_regarding_perspective_on_casualties.html#comment-4465 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/05/from_an_email_regarding_perspective_on_casualties.html#comment-4465 Thu, 27 May 2004 13:55:53 -0600 Ya. Many fears essentially boil down to fear of the unknown - which is essentially fear of death. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/05/from_an_email_regarding_perspective_on_casualties.html#comment-4450 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/05/from_an_email_regarding_perspective_on_casualties.html#comment-4450 Thu, 27 May 2004 08:39:32 -0600