V.D. Day

A fitting tribute in this rather incoherent V.D. Hanson article in National Review:

Here at home questions were raised in the last two years that would have been equally inconceivable on September 10, 2001. Do images of those fighting on the peaks of Afghanistan or in the desert of Iraq, when juxtaposed to the rallies on our elite campuses, suggest that a populist military is doing a better or worse job than our privileged universities in training our youth to be educated, well-spoken, and rational? Is Marin County's Johnny Walker Lindh, seeking to find himself among the Taliban, or Middle America's Johnny Span dying to protect us from the primordial henchmen of Afghanistan, a metaphor for us all, so increasingly at a crossroads at the millennium?

No, I don't know what it means either. It would have been nice if V.D. had bothered to get Mr. Spann's name right, though. I suppose it doesn't matter if you value people based on whether they advance your agenda, rather than as human beings.