[Always Learning]

"and while his status as the parent of a murder victim may lend his words extra poignancy, it doesn't necessarily give him any special insight into the reasons why people kill."

This brings to mind David Letterman's challenge to O'Reilly that, since he hadn't lost a child in the war, O'Reilly was in no position to criticize Cindy Sheehan's statements.

[dd5339]

Actually trying to get the Lawrence Kansas Journal World to publish this got me "banned for life" from ever submitting another letter to the editor.

Semper Fi