Pray for ALL Troops

This week one of my good friends ships out for
his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, so this
post is for him. It was written in the cement
pier of a public park in Greenwich, Connecticut.
(Not to lessen the gravity of the words, when I
first read it I was absolutely sure it said
'PRAY FOR OUR TROUTS', which had a certain
kind of gramatically evasive logic situated as it was
in a popular fishing spot. I was thinking, man,
either fisherfolk around here have had bad luck
lately, or the local environmental activists have a
good sense of fun.) Greenwich, Connecticut,
July 2008.