The Tragedy of Sacrificing Their Children's Childhood for Bush's War

by Sandy Sand

There was a story in the Los Angeles Times on Feb. 15, that was enough to set one's guts wrenching and brain spinning in a thousand directions at once.Headline: Soldiers' daughter in on duty at homeSubhead: A 20-year-old takes charge of her four sisters in Hesperia while her parents serve in Iraq

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While both Times headlines are true, they don't come close to telling the entire story. A far better header would have been, "Sacrificing Their Childrens' Childhood for George Bush's War."

After a glance at the headlines my first thought was that a combined Washington, D.C. version of "Wife Swap" and "The Nanny" is called for here. From W. down, every legislator should be forced to read this story and give up one day of his life to babysit these four girls.

By the time they went through the rotation, the eldest sister, who's had all the responsibility of caring for them foisted upon her, and is sacrificing her youth to tend these minor children and the household, she will have had time to get her diploma at any university or trade school of her choice.

While that's still true, because it wouldn't hurt any of the above to really live out what our military families are living through, I altered my opinon from the above to: This sounds like dereliction of home duty; really bad parenting; misdirected priorities; government malfeasance, and everything in between.

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