"News from Home"

Although the US flag of command was officially lowered in Baghdad today, we should not forget that as US involvement in Iraq winds down, the conflict in neighboring Afghanistan is (if anything) still ramping up, and that US soliders continue to put themselves in harms way every day.

Dave & John Xandegar (aka briXwerX) recently created this simple scene in honor of Dave's nephews Nick and Jordan, who are now both serving in Afghanistan.



As you sit bathed in the light of a flat panel display, viewing words and images miraculously delivered to you from some distant data center, it's worth remembering this... For all it's distractions and evils and sillyness, the Internet and other microprocessor technologies make the lives of today's military personnel safer and more tolerable in an innumerable number of ways!