"Had things been different, she is the kind of woman who might be one of my best friends. Instead, I'm dating her husband," writes Right Thinking Girl in what one of her readers, Kitty Litter, dubs "A Two Hanky Read":
The fight against terrorism isn't just happening in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other parts of the world. It's still happening here at home, in places like Virginia and New York City. It's being waged in the 3,000 families who aren't finished grieving over their loved ones and who will never be finished grieving. It's being waged every time a wife wakes up to the crying baby who will never know his father, and every time a man wakes up in a cold sweat dreaming that his wife jumped to avoid being burned alive. The war on terror isn't some make believe idea. It's real. And I say this as somebody who knows firsthand just how real it is.
Yes. We're tearing up, too, and you should go and -- as they say -- read the whole thing. Thanks to Rob A of Fine? Why Fine? for posting about it as a response to the soul-deaf spoutings of Aussie columnist Phillip Adams, who mocks George Bush and America for overreacting to the loss of "a couple of large skyscrapers."
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