From: Rick Noriega
Date: Mon Mar 24 13:56:57 2008
Re: 4000 soldiers
Yesterday we reached the terrible milestone of 4,000 Americans dead in the misguided war in Iraq.
395 Texans and their families have paid the ultimate price and I ask you to take the time you would have spent on my website today offering them your prayers and your thanks for the heroic service of their loved ones.
We must also offer the country a new direction so that more of our young men and women are not lost.
I have suspended my campaign website for 24 hours to call attention to the failed policies that led us into war and kept us there with no plan for getting out.
God Bless Texas and God Bless America.
Wonder if it would be fitting for blogs to do the same. (Does anyone remember the day, back in the 90's when websites turned their pages black for a day in order to protest a court ruling supporting internet censorship?) If Dailykos was down for a day, what could we all do with the time we would have otherwise spent here to help end the war and honor those who have served? Write letters to the editor, write letters to congress, volunteer, donate... what else?