I realize they’re calling it a “conflict” now, but my point is, politics aside, people are still fighting every single day. Those yellow magnetic ribbons are nice, but does anyone even see them anymore? Don’t we all kind of look right through them?

I’ve been talking to Iraq war veterans for an upcoming story. It’s not a story about the war, it’s just about those fighting it. Sometimes my ears go numb listening to these guys. I simply cannot fathom the things they have experienced.

Sometimes I feel like my life is a Bruce Springsteen soundtrack. I don’t mean that his life experiences have paralleled mine in any way, I just mean that I tend to hold his songs up like a prism through which I take a peek at everything around me.

Here is today’s soundtrack.

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