book 2

I just finished Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, by Jon Krakauer.  Oh my stars, was that a difficult book to read.  If you don’t recall, Pat Tillman was a player in the NFL who joined the army after 9/11.  His story was hijacked by the media and portrayed him as someone he was not, and then he got killed in Afghanistan (apparently accidentally) by a member of his own unit.   Then the Army and the U.S. government attempted a cover-up.  This book has made me worried for America.  Consider this:

“[We are] eliminating the alpha males from our midst, and at a dizzyingly accelerating rate.  But in Muslim countries, the alpha male is still alive and well.  While we in America are drugging our alpha males with Ritalin, the Muslims are doing everything in their power to encourage their alpha boys to be tough, aggressive, and ruthless… We are proud if our sons get into a good college; they are proud if their sons die as martyrs.
To rid your society of high-testosterone alpha males may bring peace and quiet, but if you have an enemy that is building up an army of alpha boys to hate you fanatically and who have vowed to destroy you, you will be committing suicide…”

I’m not saying I agree completely with the above quote – just that it has me thinking.  Even though I was left sickened and saddened after finishing it, I highly recommend this book. 

Ooooookay.  Not much new going on in La Casa Marrón, other than Henry explaining to us what the Federal Reserve is and Maria spontaneously bringing an empty plastic bottle to the recycling bin unprompted.  With citizens like these, there may be hope for America yet.