Brett Favre and True Heroes

As is a ritual in my house during the fall and winter, I spent Sunday and Monday night watching the NFL.  I am huge fan.  But last night, as I was watching the Brett Bowl between the Vikings and the Packers, I found myself thinking about my old profession.

There were a couple of recent articles detailing a battle in Afghanistan that occurred this past weekend.  Eight US soldiers were killed.  It was the deadliest attack on a US base in some time in that conflict.  One of the articles detailed how wounded Americans refused to leave the battle.

While I was never wounded during my time in Iraq, I do know what that feeling is - it is the feeling of never letting your fellow warriors down, of never leaving them behind. 

I wonder, how many people watching Brett Favre and hearing over and over about what a warrior he is, how many of those same people were thinking about those true warriors fighting and dying in a lonely combat outpost thousands of miles away in Afghanistan?

I bet the number was very low.  And I bet that of those people who were actually thinking about Afghanistan, most if not all of them have either served or been connected to someone who has. 

I highly doubt there were a lot of civilians thinking about anything more than watching Favre, in off-putting Vikings jersey no less, throw another long bomb.

All the while, real bombs were exploding.