I, a former Sergeant of the Infantry, will breakfast with my father-in-law (Colonel, Battle of the Bulge, Normandy, 2 Bronze Stars, etc.) and a current Colonel in the Nevada National Guard (Gulf I, Gulf II, etc. etc.). We will not mention what we have seen and done because our wives will be there.

After breakfast we will go out to a high school and visit a football field covered with over 2,600 crosses, one for every US citizen killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is not a protest -- it was put up by the American Legion, the Marine Corps League, the DAV, the VFW, and other local veterans' groups -- but a visual statement of what is going on now, a reminder to the community.