My tax money at work

It is bad enough that my tax money has gone to maim and kill American soldiers and Iraqi citizens, but it is also going to boost the Army's recruiting project by funding the video game, "America's Army." It isn't much money--just $2.5 million a year--but how tacky is it that the military has to produce a video game in order to find recruits?

Now "America's Army" has a new addition--the Army has added digital likenesses of actual soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The idea, of course, is to get adolescents to sign up. I assume that none of the digital images is of soldiers wounded, killed or suffering from a mysterious disease.