I have a Thanksgiving story for your consumption that has nothing to do with turkeys or pumpkin pie or crazy uncles.
Instead, in an effort to remind you what this holiday can really stand for, we’ll meet some people who are thankful today for simply being free.
It’s a short story today, but an especially touching one, so follow along and we’ll take a little hop across the Atlantic for a trip you should not miss.
Missile defense has always struck me as a kind of whiz-bang Maginot Line: a colossally expensive way of lulling ourselves into a false sense of nuclear security. But I live near Redstone Arsenal, an important center of missile defense development, so when I saw an AP story saying that Obama is expected to cancel the Europe-based "missile shield," my first question was how it would affect the part of the state where I live.
