http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/opinion/12mon1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

The author writes that despite this being an unpopular war, the troops fighting it is doing so with pride and honor. The author states that "The entire burden of the today's wars has been carried by a volunteer military force and its families". To use the words "and its families" takes on a whole new meaning in itself. Alot of people can't connect with that because the families don't make the nightly news too much. But I truly know and feel their pain. I am grateful for the author's acknowledgement of the families along with the soldiers because they suffer so often in silience. When the soldiers gets a medal the families deserves one also. The spouses, the children, the Moms, Dad, grandparents, inlaws, etc. On this Veterans Day we salute each of you also. Just like the author remembered you, so do I.