Monday, September 01, 2003

The Lying Years

A Dick Cheney flashback, thanks to Al Franken... (p.218)

..Then you cross the Potomac, on approach to the Pentagon. But just before you settle down on the landing pad, you like upon Arlington National Cemetary, its gentle slopes and crosses row on row.

I never once made that trip without being reminded how enormously fortunate we all are to be Americans, and what a terrible price thousands have paid so that all of us - and millions more around the world - might live in freedom.


From his speech to the RNC in 2000.