[SoCal Pubbie]

I used the world "if", which I assume you read in a dyslexic fugue state.

As a native of Orange County, who's lived in So Cal my entire life, with parents who came here in the 1920's, I know a bit about the area. I know it was home to not one, but TWO Marine bases for decades, and has produced its share of not only veterans but Medal of Honor winners.

I noticed there was not one mention in your article about the Hispanic subculture here, and the recent immigrants who called Orange County home before going off to fight and die in Iraq. Maybe just a few words about the contrast of poor immigrants who arrive with nothing yet give all, but no, Orange County kids are all white surfer dudes who hang out at the beach spending their parents' money.

I'm sorry, but I think it is the height of poor taste to write an article that basically trashes the entire youth of an area of several million people at the very same time that hundreds of school kids are conducting candlelight vigils for their fallen classmates who've died in Iraq, without at least one throw away sentence for those who've fallen.

[broadsword]

I'm sorry, but I think it is the height of poor taste to write an article that basically trashes the entire youth of an area of several million people at the very same time that hundreds of school kids are conducting candlelight vigils for their fallen classmates who've died in Iraq, without at least one throw away sentence for those who've fallen.

The piece is making a point about a certain irresponsible subculture, not about all the people of a certain place. he could have placed it in just about ANY big city in the USA. He chose Orange County. good as any other place. but, in your hypersensitive CA identity, you missed the whole point.

It's art. It's like poetry. One takes the greater meaning if he is capable. See what happens when children grow up without art?

"Bobby, honey, look at the pretty picture. See all the colors?
"Ahhhh! Ahh, Ahhhhhhh!"
"OMG! What's happening?"
"I'm sorry, ma'am. Your son doesn't seem to have an imagination."