Twisted values exclude deployed troops

My email box is full of links to Todd Akin. He has been the topic for the last few days and rightly so but he is only one of the many taking up time and interest of the 24-7 news shows. There is always some reason or another to invest what used to be called "reporting" time instead of what most of the people I hang around with talk about.

We talk about this.

'No one really cares': US deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000 in 'forgotten' war
By NBC News staff and wire reports

KABUL, Afghanistan -- It was once President Barack Obama's "war of necessity." Now, it's America's forgotten war.

The Afghan conflict generates barely a whisper on the U.S. presidential campaign trail.

It's not a hot topic at the office water cooler or in the halls of Congress — even though more than 80,000 American troops are still fighting here and dying at a rate of one a day.

Americans show more interest in the economy and taxes than the latest suicide bombings in a different, distant land. They're more tuned in to the political ad war playing out on television than the deadly fight still raging against the Taliban. Earlier this month, protesters at the Iowa State Fair chanted "Stop the war!" They were referring to one purportedly being waged against the middle class.
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We talk about men and women risking their lives everyday in Afghanistan right along side of someone they may not agree with politically but are willing to die for their sake all the same.

We talk about the wounded coming home almost as much as we talk about the veterans coming home with PTSD and TBI.

We talk about wasted time and money on things that have been proven to be failures and how 40 years of researching proving what does work is ignored.

We talk about the Mom visiting her son's grave because he didn't get what he needed to recover from where he was sent, doing what he was asked do and then that same Mom blames herself. She couldn't have imagined this country would have let down so many and wondered why the media never told her a thing about any of this.

For all the ability to communicate with each other online and on our phones, you'd think we'd use it wisely but we don't. It is too easy to send a text or blog update about what you had for lunch then invest any real time in talking or even showing you care.