Opinion: To lose a loved one to war is one thing; to lose a loved one to war and then have the most powerful person in the country ... disrespect you ... is another thing entirely, writes AndrewCarleen.
What there was much less discussion about were the actual material circumstances of Johnson’s death. How had an American service member been killed fighting in a country where, on paper, the U.S.
to the bottom of Google’s news feed to read about the latest casualties from where I had been only weeks before. The abrupt and unharmonious rapture into what felt like an incredibly inane alternate universe was a lonely experience.from October 2017. While I stand by the substance of the argument, there is something spiritually bereft in the words.
In my own small way, I contributed to the maelstrom of noise and to the devaluation of the Johnson family’s loss. So many talking heads five years ago ignored La David completely — made his death into a story about another presidential gaffe; I reduced him to a bullet point in an argument about foreign policy.
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