Thank You, Fallen Veterans

Take some time out this holiday weekend to remember what Memorial Day is all about. (Thanks, Dad. I'm lucky to still have you around.)

Daily Kos: Requiem for a Nightmare

• President George W. Bush - served four years of a six years Nat'l Guard commitment, some say after daddy's friends pulled some strings to keep him out of Vietnam. The circumstances of his early separation from state-side service are still controversial (details)
  
• Karl Rove, occasional Deputy Chief of Staff and alleged full time smear artist, escaped the draft and did not serve
  
• VP Dick Cheney - several deferments, by marriage and timely fatherhood
  
• Former VP Chief of Staff I. Lewis Scooter Libby - did not serve
  
• Secretary of State and former NSA Condaleeza Rice - did not serve
  
• Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve.
  
• Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - did not serve.
  
• Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay - did not serve
  
• House Majority Whip Roy Blunt - did not serve
  
• Majority Whip Mitch McConnell - did not serve
  
• Rick Santorum, third ranking Republican in the Senate - did not serve.
  
• Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott - did not serve