Voices Unheard

It strikes me that while the media outlets are all racing to talk with this person and that - politician, pundit, candidate, and columnist - about Mr. Bush and the issue of his military records, we've heard almost nothing from GIs - ours and those of coalition members - and their families.

How are they responding to it? I think, in many ways, they have more credibility here than any of many of the rest of us. They're making huge sacrifices right now for their commander in chief.

Oh, I certainly don't expect all of them to be raging angry. Many of them, I believe, have a sense of commitment that goes far beyond this president, this war, this time in America's history. Unfortunately, however, I suspect many of them are in harm's way because there were not jobs or opportunities at home and many of those serving today began their enlistment before 9/11 and all it would come to mean. Few of them had the advantages that Mr. Bush - or even the far less affluently reared Mr. Clinton - had to, as Dick Cheney would say, "have other priorities rather than serve."

Why are we hearing nothing?