The sun was a giant orange ball.

The sun was a giant orange ball just above the horizon as I left for my mourning walk. The weather has been very hot for the last few days and the humidity has been rather low. Perfect wild fire weather leaving smoke and ash all over everything! We've been lucky so far that no houses or lives have been lost. When will we ever learn how dangerous it is to build next to the ocean or in fire country. It's not a matter of IF the tragedy will occur but WHEN. So houses get built and life goes on... for now.
While perusing the weekly list of dead from Iraq/Afghanistan it occurred to me that most of those killed die from IEDs. Somehow I believe that if IEDs were the cause of a few congressional deaths a solution would be found overnight. But in far off Afghanistan? Not so much. Whose death costs the country more... Newt Gingrich or the private who died anonymously and needlessly in Iraq?
Needless deaths show that we're all on this flight together.
Dick