The last man to die for a mistake: David Hickman
Describing him that way is not my choice of words, but those of The Washington Post, in piece in this morning's paper titled In Iraq, the last to fall: David Hickman, the 4,474th U.S. service member killed.
It then quotes a close friend of Hickman:
will the 1% listen when poverty hits close to home?
Hickman, 23, was killed in Baghdad by a roadside bomb that ripped through his armored truck Nov. 14 — eight years, seven months and 25 days after the U.S. invasion of Iraq began.He was the 4,474th member of the U.S. military to die in the war, according to the Pentagon.The article explicitly quotes the famous words of now Senator John Kerry in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
And he may have been the last.
It then quotes a close friend of Hickman:
“Thank God if David is the last one to die, because that means nobody else will have to go through
will the 1% listen when poverty hits close to home?
What about political leaders?
I ask that after reading Wealthy counties see jump in need for food aid in this morning's Washington Post. It focuses on Hunterdon County Nj,
I ask that after reading Wealthy counties see jump in need for food aid in this morning's Washington Post. It focuses on Hunterdon County Nj,
whose 2010 median household income of $97,874 was the highest in New Jersey and fourth-highest in the country, saw food-stamp usage surge 513 percent between 2007 and 2010.The pattern was repeated across the nation:
The percentage of U.S. households using food stamps more than doubled in six of the nation’s 10 wealthiest counties as more residents find themselves out of work and unable to sell their homes.In Hunterdon the number of families went from 232 to 1,407 during the three years from 2007 to 2010.
ationwide, requests for food assistance increased over the past year in 25 of 29 cities surveyed by
