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www.thememoryhole.org has photos of dead soldiers coming back from Iraq. It's strange to look at them; death evokes a reaction too complex to explain. Strange to think that those carefully flag-draped boxes contain what little remains of so much. Strange. Strange to think that a fair number of them weren't that much older than I am. And strange to think that these are not pictures of bodies coming back from Vietnam, from Korea, from WWII. This isn't history. Not yet. I can't say that it puts a face on the war; each coffin is identical. It still hits you differently than hearing that so many died in such an "incident." It would be politically astute to be concerned about the effects of such images. I do not think it is wise.

Chem test tomorrow. I'm up entirely too late. I just kept reading the news--the vast majority of it depressing today.

There's no ID lab summer job, unfortunately. They don't want to keep me doing busywork until they figure out what they're doing; the decision for funding came today. So it looks like summer math.