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One of the better things I had sent to me this week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rQzUVQjd8

Nice sentiments, but a bit too simplistic and ethnocentric, IMMHO. He posits
that the only reason he is free is the sacrifice soldiers past and present.
He does not cover the democratic principles and institutions that drive our
great nation and protect us as Americans. Nor does he note that the
sacrifice of soldiers might be avoided, if only our so-called leaders were
wiser geo-political decisionmakers and less capitalistically oriented.

Baxter Black is a wonderful poet. However, I don't know that I would accept
all of his socio-economic or political viewpoints.

To assume that someone--anyone--*has* to die to ensure my way of life is a
proposition for which I do not adhere, and reeks of jingoism, YMMV.

Op