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Monday, July 11
Had the TV on while I was getting ready for work this morning, and, since I couldn’t find the remote control, the only thing I could watch was The Larry Elder Show—The Larry Elder Show being one of those programs one must offer a explanation with, as in, “I had just been shot in the spine and as I lay on the ground, totally immobile, I saw that Maury Povich was featuring ‘Enormous Babies Parade.’” Anyway, on The Larry Elder Show—which I could not get out of watching, well, I could if I turned off the TV, but, c’mon—he had on Shauna Fleming, the Orange County high school kid who organized an effort to send more than a million letters to kids not much older than herself, currently serving in Iraq. Good kid. Great kid. Anyway, she mentioned that she’s also helping to send care packages over to the troops and the number one thing the soldiers are asking for is sunscreen. Think about that. Sunscreen. The best-equipped military on earth goes to fight a war in the desert and doesn’t bring enough sunscreen? Reminded me of that scene in Patton where Patton says he knows the Germans are beat because they’re using carts to haul their dead. My God, we’re asking high school kids to provide the basic necessities for our troops? Everyone’s been asked to support our troops. Is it too much to ask that the administration that sent them pitch in also?