Thank you, Mrs. Duck, for the Tanglefoot site.

Michael Noline, a Chiricahua Apache from the Bedonkohe band (San Carlos Reservation) was the first American casuality (KIA) in the Gulf War.

I mention Michael Noline because no one seems to know who he was, or even THAT he was. And the irony is so resonant with what Mickey191 mentioned. My grandaughter is Serena Noline, a distant cousin.

Every once in a while there comes a song or a poem about war or born in war or from war experiences which is intense and moving and shouts for an end, finally. But there is no end and that is damned depressing!

Ralph Chapin's "Red Feast" is such a poem. Look for the original Little Red Songbook, or the IWW site, the complete words might be there. It too is from the "War to end all wars".

If only.

CB