Happy Autumnal Equinox!

Happy Autumnal Equinox everyone! I'm ecstatic to greet my favorite season of the year (and start using my favorite default icon).

I've waxed loquacious about this before, so I won't go into detail, I'll just say that I love it when the nights start to get noticeably longer, and things cool down, and the leaves turn and all the pollenating plants either die or hibernate. ;D Halloween is just around the corner, and Thanksgiving. It's just a wonderful time of year.

Appalling article

I just finished reading an article about the probability that over a thousand American POWs were left behind in POW camps at the end of the Vietnam war and never rescued. In addition the article reveals the fact that this has been covered up by every administration since that time, with the help of politicians on both sides of the aisle, such as John Kerry and John McCain. This is no National Enquirer article either, the author is a Pulitzer prize-winner. If this is true I just... I don't know what to say, or how to express my outrage. I could easily see the original event happening like this, with the Nixon Administration involved, but the idea that the facade was maintained by successive administrations is just unbearable.

(original link seen in celli's LJ)