While watching a news show recently, the interviewee was responding to a reporter who had asked about her son?s decision to join the military.
?We?re not that type of family,? she said, almost bewildered that anyone would want to serve.
My first thought was, ?What type of family??
And then I realized that the woman, whose son was killed in Iraq, had in one sentence differentiated her family?s East Coast, upper crust life from mine.