Thanksgiving thoughts

This war we’ve dragged ourselves to continues its murderous and seemingly ineluctable slide into chaos. Even as this nation pauses, as it readies to ponder turkey and football, to remember that earliest of moments as the ideals we would eventually claim for our own were coming into being.

This Thanksgiving, as Bob Herbert reminds us, too many families will have an empty chair at their table, a loved on across the ocean or no longer with them because of the violence raging in the desert. We should remember this as the turkey roasts, as we sip our beer and wine, as we smell the pies baking for desert.

Those of us who are whole and together should give thanks for what we have and the sacrifices that the men and women are making in our name, knowing that they are doing what they have been told is their job and reserve our anger and blame for another day a set of leaders with no more regard for the men they send into battle than they have for the truth.

Happy Thanksgiving.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet