Article about the war in Iraq & Afghanistan

I found this very eloquent quote from a rabbi about the war and the casualties in an MSNBC article today.

In the quiet of his office at Temple Emanu-El in Westfield, N.J., Rabbi Douglas Sagal devotes part of each Friday afternoon to the war.

Using a Department of Defense Web site, he gathers a weekly list of those who died in Afghanistan and Iraq and reads their names at Friday night services just before the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead.

"It came out of my belief that really the great sin of our time, maybe the great sin of our generation is we send people to war and we insist on living our lives as if nothing is happening," he says. "I made a promise to myself that we are going to know the names of those who have died in the service of our country."

As an avid reader of history, I think the real difference between this war and say the Vietnam War or WWII, is that we as a society do not feel like we are at war. If anything, we have become numb to this conflict which has been going for over 8 years.

God Bless every soldier who may he bring each one home to their families.

jp