AU REVOIR AFGHANISTAN

I don't imagine that anyone reading this today has ever heard of  Normangee. Its just a little town in Texas. Wade Wilson lived there, went to High School at Centerville, and played football and ran track there. Wade even showed cattle there sometimes in the county livestock shows. People say he had a great sense of humor and was at the same time an absolute gentleman. His friends say that he did whatever it took to "get the job done". He was very close with his brothers and his sister, and his friends say that no one ever questioned his love for them. He enlisted in the Marines when he was just 17.

He had a mom and Dad as well as his brothers, Chad,Alex, and Curtis, and a sister Layne. Wade always supported St Jude's Research Hospital. Wayne would have turned 23 in August.

None of us would know anything about this young guy...probably never even hear his name... because he's just one of the "casualties" in the ongoing war in Afghanistan. We don't pay much attention to people like Wade, we're kinda used to this war going on...and maybe slowly winding down. Wade died on Mother's Day...his Mom Cindy will feel her heart break again every year on that Sunday in May.

France is talking about bringing their troops home quicker than they'd planned. While their men and women are supposed to be training the Afghan army, once again the Afghan soldiers turned their weapons on the French soldiers and killed them....maybe the French have had enough.

While the Wilson's of Normangee Texas cry their eyes out and bury their 22 year old son, we watch the anti war protesters clash with the police in Chicago.

While the radicals tear down fences and the cops use their billy clubs, maybe the message is getting lost in the battle again. A lot more people like Wade Wilson will die by 2014. Maybe we ought to follow the French this time...it's already too late for the Wilsons.