Ted Rall for September 21, 2009
Transcript:
The lawn around the Vietnam war memorial in D.C. is in terrible shape. (Man: We may have to destroy the sod in order to save it! The visiting vets flaked off too much agent orange!) (Man 2: The combat heroes of today must make the ultimate sacrifice after their penultimate sacrifice.) The grass needs fertilizer. So fertilizer it shall have. Instead of rotting away. The bodies of soldiers killed in Afghanistan will be ground up and mulched. (Man 3: I regret that I have but one life to give for the life of the lawn of the memorial of the war of my country.) Next: Lawn trouble at the future site of the Afghan War Memorial. (Man 1: Oh no- the Afghan vets are walking clouds of depleted uranium!) (Man 4: Don't worry- come what may, we'll gin up some new war!)