"Our National Guard units, haggard after multiple deployments, have lost nearly 60 percent of their ready reserve of equipment and personnel, and another local family has just buried a son sent home in a closed coffin, under the radar, lest anyone see. The flag outside the funeral home is permanently at half-mast and a new crop of presidential candidates are telemarketing now — dialing for dollars so they can buy airtime to tell us all how, the shape of the planet notwithstanding, they’ve got a program to make it all better"

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