Ben Bova: No matter the burdens, it is a season of thanksgiving Naples Daily News
With the coming of Thanksgiving, it’s everything to look around, take stock and think of what we have to thankful for.
This has been a tough year, for the nation, for the world and for me personally. The economic collapse has hurt almost everyone. Our troops are being killed in Afghanistan. My wife died, after 38 years of the happiest existence a man can have.
So what’s there to be so pleased about?
I mean, take a look at Washington. The politicians have manufactured a crisis about health care and then completely muddled up their attempts to fix the puzzle.
Economists tell us the recession is ended, yet more than 10 percent of the American work force is unemployed.
The Taliban are swarming and fighting in Afghanistan, killing our soldiers and financing their operations through sales of the local poppy crop to dope merchants.
A Muslim officer in the American Army killed 13 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, after deciding that his devotion to Islam is more important to him than his loyalty to the United States.
