Here's a holiday thought from Scott Adams' Dilbert Newsletter 39.0:
"I've written and rewritten this section a dozen times. My problem is that no matter how much I write, I keep condensing it down to the same thought: This holiday season, as we laugh and eat and shop and enjoy friends and family, our soldiers are in Afghanistan risking everything for us. Some of them won't come back. The rest will never be the same.
"Every one of them volunteered. They think we're worth it.
"Let's prove them right."
