i know i make fun of all sorts of shit here, that i have a tone that resembles a cement mixer, but there are some things that i find strangely powerful, even in there odd be there done that clicheness.

a father and a son wrote the "name, rank, and date of death of an American soldier killed in the war in Iraq" on baseballs, one ball for each name, and made those baseballs into a wall, they are claiming it as memorial, not as pro war or anti war, but just as an awareness.

i am moved, almost to tears, at this.
maybe its the photo, of a red headed kid, looking downward, this huge wall behind him, towering over him.
http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/articles/2004/07/07/hardball_heaven?pg=full