Right you are, Rob, and this seems like a cop-out on my part, but I gotta say--at least it's happening, and we all will make the best of it.

And like MG Stephenson and others on the Team related several times yesterday, this is a part of history, and the young people who witness it are a all a part of it, and over the next thirty years, will carry it a long way.

At Quantico Marine Base, anyone would have been awestruck at the number of little raised hands there were to the question "how many of you boys and girls have a parent now serving in Iraq or Afghanistan?"

Many of them may be immersed in similar activities. God forbid the necessity, but they will if needed.

Lumpy