Trumpets

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage; there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. . . . "

-- Thomas Mann

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Well, that's what I posted before I went to bed. Waking up, I learn the trumpet was playing taps: the list of U.S. military deaths in Iraq has now rolled past the 3,000 mark.

Heaven help us all.