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In an amazing show of solidarity, the Honolulu Marathon will be run twice this Sunday: once in Hawaii and once in...Iraq.
We've talked a lot about the terrible effects of the war in Iraq on this site. In this country the emphasis, quite naturally, is on the American victims, so we have tended to discuss the Iraqi victims. But a victim is a victim and war has too many of them.
Mike Dunford points me to an organization that supports families who've lost loved ones in the Iraq War
Yes, you read that right. Our soldiers in Iraq will run the marathon at the same time as the Honolulu race and will be considered to be contestants in the Honolulu marathon.

No need to watch where you step around sheep. Sheep deficate nearly dry pellets the size of a small bean.

By Jim Thomerson (not verified) on 21 Jul 2008 #permalink