A total of 127 troops died in May. This is the third worst total of any month since the invasion of Iraq. A total of 3495 soldiers have died. We are moving in on 3500 which will occur very quickly and pass us by. Civilian deaths in Iraq are moving in on 70,000 that are accountable. This is not to just to remind us all we are in a war, but a memorial to those who are sacrificing everything.And for some reason I am reminded of this quote this morning: "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will... The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."
-Frederick Douglass-
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