Parents deserve to know, for their children's sake. The politicians have finally admitted that strip joints are important to Atlanta's economy and to their campaign financing. Now Steve Hummer tells us that professional athletes may not play in Atlanta without easy women. As a woman and mother of three, I sympathize with the victims of the attack and plainly see it as an atrocity. That said, America must come to terms with a few harsh realities.
War is barbaric, with casualties an obvious consequence.
America sent Kerrey to war, to kill or be killed. Now, America wants him to apologize for killing and not being killed. Just as many American lives were sacrificed, so were there casualties to the enemy to ensure that some of our family members survived. Whatever young Kerrey's actions, he, too, was a sacrifice for our many freedoms. So let not he who has not battled as a soldier in Vietnam be the first to question the survival methods of those soldiers fighting for their country and their own lives, too.