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Originally Posted by Seaver
Listen, if you want a SECDEF who does nothing but sign letters, nothing will get accomplished, and it would only cause more and more letters each day.
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Well, this is a real nice way to attempt to derail the thread. Pretty confident that NO ONE said they wanted a SECDEF to "do nothing but sign letters". Pretty silly to put those words out there. That doesn't advance the debate, it just helps create the partisen bickering.
As someone else suggested, this wouldn't take 2 hours to do. Spread over the length of the war. As busy as the SECDEF is, anyone has 2 hours in a year in their job for something important. I think it would show respect for the dead to do this.
Call it shallow, call it politics, or call it a sincere way to thank the families for their ultimate sacrifice. I prefer to think of it as the latter. I see almost NO cost, and the potential for great meaning. And yet it doesn't happen.
I sure draw my own conclusions from that.