Worried sick.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

My wife has a friend whose only son just got sent to Iraq--he's stationed near Tikrit in the most dangerous area of the country. So his mother clearly had enough to worry about. But now, she has joined the millions of others who have lost their jobs under the present administration. I suspect hers is not a vote Bush can count on.

A disturbing sidelight to this item is that one of the son's...