It's hard to be a Bush fan right now. The war has had an incredible impact in communities across the country.

It's unfair to wait for us to become a problem community. We can't compete with California or the East Coast. We can't compete with Louisiana right now. Washington, D.C., never sees Utah as a state in need.

If they cut those dollars, it reduces the number of homes we can build and we can make available for families.

The things men did or felt they had to do.

To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and again and often forever.

We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.