July 15, 2003
BABYLAND
At the very back of the cemetery where my parents are interred is a section called Babyland. It was set aside after the influenza epidemic of 1918, because most people didn't have family plots back then, but you had a lot of dead children, therefore we have this monument to helplessness. My youngest saw Babyland for the first time on her recent trip to Savannah on a ghost tour, and is now having nightmares.
Think about it. Think about setting aside 14 acres to bury your children and get on with your life, then think about what these Democrats are saying about Iraq and Bush and the soldiers we've lost there. I'd like to bitchslap the lot of them.
Life used to be rough. It still is if you're in the armed services. Why can't these yellowjacks appreciate that and let one election cycle pass? Why use casualties for votes? There were honorable Democrats once. I'll tell my grandkids about them.
Meanwhile the Republicans are spending your money like drunken sailors so that I can subsidize Warren Buffett's blood pressure medicine. Shit. I'm subsidizing JIMMY Buffett's blood pressure medicine.
The shame.