The widest divide in America is between those who have borne the cost personally - and those who have not

A Fallen Marine’s Father Waging a Righteous Battle

The New York Times
By KEVIN COYNE

“You need to do for guys today what people did for us at the beginning, because they’re still dying,” said Mr. McGinnis, 54, of West Deptford.

The longer the fighting continues in Iraq and Afghanistan, the clearer it becomes that the widest divide in America may not be the one between those who support the wars and those who don’t, but the one between those who have borne the cost personally — those who have served overseas themselves, or have waited anxiously as a loved one has — and those who have not. Mr. McGinnis drives a tractor-trailer across southern New Jersey each working day, but for almost five years now, just about as long as his son was a marine, he has made it his other job to try to narrow that gap.

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