national treasure

Last night, General (Retired) Richard Meyers USAF, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke at the Plaza Library. He discussed his book, a memoir called “Eyes on the Horizon”. Richard grew up in Merriam Kansas and few times he mentioned that it felt good to be home. He lives in the DC area. After discussing his career and some lessons he learned, he took questions from the audience. The audience soon sensed that this general was a compliant bureaucrat, the perfect general to compliment Rumsfeld and Bush. The coffin pictured, draped in a flag and bearing the body of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of Hopewell, VA, was unloaded from a government aircraft by a military honor guard on Sunday April 5. Sergeant Myers, 30, was killed by an improvised explosive device near Helmand Province in Afghanistan on April 4, according to the Defense Department. I cannot fathom, and probably never will, how we allowed ourselves to lose so many national treasures like Philip Myers. And I cannot understand how retired leaders like Richard Meyers, signing copies of their books, do not exhibit any shame or remorse.