I live near a military base. The sounds and rumbles of the large tankers often catch me unawares. Momentarily, I may imagine that my little condo will be crushed under the weight of the behemoth. Several times a day one of the 157th Air Refueling Wing's eight KC-135R Stratotankers will depart or return from refueling F-16s from Vermont, and A-10s and F-15s from Massachusetts. No matter what my political views at the time, the sounds always fill me with wonder. Forces far beyond my every day world are performing their unique jobs.

Today one of the tankers flying overhead elicited a reaction from a little girl that changed my world, inconveniently. I heard her screams, and my first reaction was that she had been tragically injured. I rushed in her direction as did two adults near her. They were her adopted parents, and they explained that they had only recently brought her to the United States from her war torn homeland. For this little girl low flying planes always bring death and destruction.

Dorothy Wickenden has an interesting article in this week's The Talk Of The Town in The New Yorker. She compares the changing positions and strategies of John McCain and Barack Obama. She concludes that Obama, if he is to win, must tell the public the inconvenient truths that can inspire change. He can make voters part of the solution by helping them understand the issues. She believes that the next president can be its most powerful leader. "Congress will not redeem themselves until consumers demand that they do so by making some inconvenient changes of their own. A little more audacity will yield a lot more hope."

The little girl's screams of terror have inconveniently changed my views.

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