I have no particular views on re-incarnation, although I suppose if you subscribe to the dust to dust theory, we may have been earth worms or mice, raccoons or squirrels, horses or goats, before graduating to the big leagues..walking the earth upright as human beings. Having lost children far too young, I get some peace in believing that they have another mission either on this earth or beyond. If re-incarnation is part of the Almighty’s plan, I’m not sure those of us who get tapped on the shoulder, would come back willingly.

Imagine…if you checked out of here during World War Two. You might have remembered the great leadership of General Patton, with that pearl handled side arm, or Dwight D. Eisenhower and crusty old Omar Bradley…Generals who won a war with the greatest generation pouring blood sweat and tears into the effort. Now imagine, you pop back to earth===you can’t figure out these new fangled phones and tablets and their internet connections…but you can read and you pick up the local paper and you read about Today’s Generals…and you probably want to make a u turn back to Paradise.

You read that in the past two years thousands of young Americans have given their lives on the bloody turf of Afghanistan..the General in charge…spent a hell of a lot of time playing electronic footsie with a socialite---a world away…As many as 30 thousand e mails reportedly were exchanged between 4 Star General John Allen and Jill Kelly---who appears to have been the Belle Watling of Tampa…offering…cocktails and comfort..to America’s Military leaders….any time they rotated out of the war zone for a little R and R. You read this, and the earlier admission by Retired General David Petraeus…Allen’s predecessor..and you wonder if it’s the men and not the mission that could be getting our men and women shipped home in bags not airline seats. You read more and you wonder if the burgeoning scandal leads all the way to the Commander in Chief---as you learn that the President, who is pledging to end this war---has postponed that promise…while under his watch, 70 percent of all u-s war related deaths have occurred in Afghanistan…more than 14 hundred Americans dying for a cause that few of us can explain any longer. The mission’s a mess…the deaths are out of control and the General’s are according to one report sending phone sex type e mails by the gross…

You read this and while you know that war is hell…because you’ve been there…you really just want to escape…you ask yourself dodging bullets in Normandy…or bombs in Britan might be better than serving under these 4 star lotharios…come to think of it…you feel like bailing out of the human race...if you’re offered a chance to come back as a squirrel…or a cow or even a worm…you’ll take it..but don't even think about roaming the plains as a pole cat..a cougar or a skunk...apparently those jobs are filled by old soliders and loose women..