| Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Saturday, January 15, 2005
Unlike the families of service members, the families of contractors have not had years to steel themselves for the possibility of death in combat. Their loved ones don't carry rifles or fire heavy machine guns. They are civilians going about their jobs, and each sudden, violent death is shocking, no matter how many contractors are killed in the chaos of Iraq.
Which means they didn't die without doing noble work for their country, nor that they died in vain; they just don't get snappy salutes and platitudes.
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