Jimmy's Dream

Thank God He Didn't Have a Woodshop during the Vietnam Era

Jimmy Jackson of Angleton had a dream. He awoke and told his wife he had to something. He started making crosses to honor Americans killed in Iraq. He started nailing them to his fence. The local paper in Clute published a story. Then the Houston paper followed up with its own story about Jimmy Jackson nailing crosses to his fence, but before that story hit the streets, Channel 11 broadcast its own somber report about Jimmy Jackson's crosses. That's how the great media ecosystem works. Let's say, conservatively, the USA is still in Iraq a year from now, which, most assuredly, will entail more deaths of U.S. service people. Will Jimmy Jackson still be making crosses in his garage? Will they be itty bitty crosses by then? Tinier and tinier as the months drag on? Or will Jimmy Jackson just build an addition to his fence line, so the crosses don't have to be too itty bitty. Maybe Jimmy Jackson will have a different dream before that. Maybe, if he's lucky, this dream will tell him just to make a contribution to the USO. Let's hope so.