Milestones

A Milestone- the metaphor of some objective marker; passing by one denotes long travels, triggers memories, and should be accompanied by contemplation of one's journey.

Today, Iraq Body Count, a website that measures casualties in the war in Iraq by indexing news reports, has posted that over 25,000 Iraqi civilians [at the top end of their count] have died since the American Invasion.

This is an intensely sobering milestone that America must tread past. The cost of war to us has been billions upon billions.

But to them, those costs have been incredible...