Headlines ripped from the headlines.

I know you saw it yesterday. It was everywhere.

Troops' Gravestones Have Pentagon Slogans was how Yahoo!News and AP said it.

The local yokel newspaper here in Flyover, USA said it this way:

Gilding The Gravestones

All kinds of terrible stuff went through my poor old brain when I saw these headlines. What in the world did CuriousGeorge BushMonkey do now? Visions of markers in Arlington National with slogans like "Bush #1!", "I Did Not Die For Oil", "I Loved Haliburton", and "Drink Coca-Cola" danced in my head.

But, as you can see at the top of this post, the whole kerfuffle was just another media creation. The Pentagon's crime? Carving "Operation Iraqi Freedom" or "Operation Enduring Freedom" on the markers.

Actually, this is a valuable public service. People indoctrinated in government schools will have no idea what war was being fought on the date of each servicethings death. Think of it as remedial history and then some.

BTW, what's the deal with those Stars of David and Crosses carved on the stones at taxpayer expense? How dare they! And what about the atheist troops? What the heck do they get on their stones? Darwin fish?

Oh, yeah. That's right, there are no atheists... (Want to see people squirm intellectually? Check out that last link.)