[daisyscarlett]

Excuse me if this was posted before.

This is a wife and child whose Marine husband and father will not be coming home.. ..

Mary Ellen Bancroft, holding her year-old daughter, Bailey Madison Bancroft, stands near the pitcher's mound and listens to a tribute to her late husband before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at the San Francisco Giants' home opener against the San Diego Padres in San Francisco, Friday April 5, 2002. Looking on at left is Giants' starting pitcher Kirk Rueter. Bancroft's late husband, Capt. Matthew W. Bancroft, a pilot in the Marines, was the first Northern California casualty of Operation Enduring Freedom.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

[VOA]

...a tribute to her late husband before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at
the San Francisco Giants' home opener against the San Diego Padres in San Francisco,

There is still hope for this country when this sort of public observance is made
any place within 100 miles of Marin County.

I heard that when the "American Taliban" issue was hot, radio talk-show hosts
in the Bay Area couldn't find any callers with the cojones to defend "Taliban John"
on the air.
That is a good sign.