I bought minutes for my phone today, so that I could forward calls from the home phone so that I won't miss any calls from Casey. Priorities. On the date of my last posting, an acquaintance from home lost her husband, a medic in the Army, due to an IED. He was 24. They'd been married for two years. He would send her flowers even while deployed, just so that she could have a living piece of his affection in his absence. Now, he can't even do that. She can call herself an Army Wife. Of course I want a world without war. However, that is a fictional world, a world of civility and rational action, not our world.