It is with great honor that this column will be dedicated to the young men and women who continue to sacrifice so much for our freedoms and our country. By any measure, the military is fighting these wars to keep me safe. I would never wish for anyone to be killed or suffer any horrors of war in a foreign land to keep me safe. That premise has been used to justify wars since WW2. How is the Taliban, who by the way had nothing to do with 9/11, going to threaten me or my way of life? Do you actually think the North Vietnamese were going to come marching down Rt. 50 and take over the country? These wars are initiated for political and economic reasons: why else would Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld lie to justify that horrible mistaken war in Iraq? Did Sadam Hussein personally threaten you? Did Viet Nam not teach us anything!