Real Americans
October 4th, 2007Ciara Durkin, if you didn’t already know, is an American soldier who, it is claimed, had “discovered things” and was subsequently killed in the military. I couldn’t be more uncomfortable with this story if I wanted to be, as the idea that the military would kill an American is bad enough but that this woman came to America as a young Irish immigrant only to be killed by the government she swore to protect and uphold — by that government implicitly and explicitly devoted to her protection and welfare kills her, that’s terrible. Not that I know for sure that she was killed but it definitely looks like it. Even if she wasn’t, her death is still tragic as can be, in my book, because women like Ciara Durkin are America, more American than a Presidential candidate who steals his ideas from his opponents or an American President who vetoed Children’s Health Insurance.