One Is One Too Many

You'd think with our big brains we'd be in love with words, but we prefer pictures if not in addition to, than often to, replace words. 

Operation Enduring Freedom began on October 7, 2001, and came to an end on August 30, 2021. The dirty little secret about the war was that we here on The Home Front unless we had/knew someone, a family member, a friend, or someone from our hometown fighting there, had little to no interest in what went on there and even less knowledge for at least a decade if not longer.

Strangely enough, the image of Major General Chris Donahue, US Army, proved to be the last frame of the final reel of the movie we'd long ago lost interest in.

There was a brief, all too brief, mention of the nearly 2.500 US military uniformed men and women who died in Afghanistan. But not a word has been offered about the 25% increase in suicides in the last year in what appears to be an escalating trend that's generating as much interest among the rest of us as the war so many of them fought in.

"Don't they look just like on "SEAL Team", Lord don't they look the best?
When we trot them out at halftime or the seventh-inning stretch.
They stand up in their uniforms and help us sell the show.
Dying by their own hands for reasons we don't know."

But no worries. 

"No one knows, 'cause no one sees.
No one cares, 'cause no one knows.
No one knows, 'cause no one sees it on TV."
-bill kenny