The Unfeeling President

This essay arrived in the inbox from a friend. I am guessing many, many people received it as well. It truly touched a nerve. Especially the first graph.

The Unfeeling President By E. L. Doctorow

I fault this president for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our 21-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be. On the eve of D-Day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die. He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of necessity, a war of survival, the cost was almost more than Eisenhower could bear.

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