For like the 21st year in a row, I didn’t watch the State of the Union. I’ve joined the crowd that considers it a useless exercise at best, a nod to monarchy or worse at worst.
But I almost wish I had tuned in, for this alone:
“Thirteen Marines”
Including his son, LCPL Kareem Nikoui, whom I’ll bring out from under the rug under which he and his comrades were swept:
And I salute you, Steve Nikoui, wherever you are.
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