Veterans Day...

Today, the Zoo stops to remember those who served, those who are serving and those who gave their lives for their country.

Military.com has a beautiful flash tribute located here.

Here is a link to a .pdf file documenting how many of our brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers have died in Operation Enduring Freedom.

and here you will find a list of Iraqi civilians killed as a result of the US led invasion of Iraq (up to Sep. 12th, 2005)

From the, "Politics Make Strange Bedfellows" file...Patrick J. Buchanan says it better than I could.

"Thus, in March, 2003, Bush, in perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history, invaded an Arab nation that had not attacked us, did not want war with us, and did not threaten us—to strip it of weapons we now know it did not have."

Stay Naked.