The Last Letter

I ripped the following from a blog post on Truthdig called "The Last Letter".  It's a letter from Tomas Young, a dying Iraq War veteran, to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.  Now I realize that I could have easily just posted a link on Twitter (and the link to the original article will appear at the bottom of this post).  But it's just that this letter moved me so much that I felt that merely posting a link would somehow cheapen its impact.  This letter needs to be cut and pasted to every blog, Facebook page, comment section, or anywhere else that takes more than 140 characters.  In essence, this letter needs to go viral so that Right-Wing neo-cons who carry their fetishism for war as a badge can see just what it does to the people we task with fighting our battles.  On this, the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war, this letter should sear itself into our minds and our conciousness, and that of our children and grandchildren, so that we NEVER again allow ourselves to be goaded into supporting a war that did not need to happen.