Switched shoes today for the Sunday run. I am now working with two different New Balance shoes. First of all, why New Balance? Two reasons, really: 1) They make a 2E, extra wide, and that's exactly what I need because I used to run barefeet during most of my high school years, and 2), They make an effort to do part of the manufacturing locally in the U.S. out of imported materials. That gives me a impression, could be, a false impression, that my shoes were made globally. So, I run on concrete in a more flexible shoe, the 809, and on softer surfaces, like asphalt, I use the 766. The 766 takes much longer to break in because it has a stiff medial support and it is in a way, a motion control shoe. You could probably break the 809 in a week whereas, the 766 might take a while longer to break in due to its stiffer structure.
I was watching the Ron Kovic movie, "Born on the Fourth of July," and I was appalled to discover the similarities of Kovic's predicament in the Vietnam-era and the current situation in Iraq. Then, as is the case now, the leaders who fomented and started the war are guilty of war crimes and atrocities against innocent civilians. Then, as in now, the leaders engaged in demagoguery and knowingly held the patriotic fervour of a nation hostage. Then, as in now, they used chicanery and wordsmithy to sacrifice the lives of poor Americans and destroy the hopes and dreams of a young generation. That young generation is supposed to educate themselves, invest in their families, collaborate with the youth of the rest of the world, and fashion for themselves, a future created in their bliss. Karl Rove, the architect of the illegal war in Iraq, just decides to resign so he can return to his family life. How many of young men and women that were sent to this illegal war will never have that option because all that was returned to their families was a coffin with a flag draped on it? And what of the innocent civilians, young and old, whose lives were written off as "collateral damage?"
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