1000...what does that mean? Really...

That's the number of dead soldiers in Iraq.

I feel sad about it and wonder "how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?"

When I was waiting in line Monday morning early for my trip to Atlanta, I saw a shaven headed 20-something guy kissing his girlfriend/wife goodbye (as she cried) and watched his family members shake hands with him, hug him, wave good-bye to him, as he goes through security and TSA searches his bags and he heads to his gate, for ports unknown to me but probably in harms way. god go with him.