By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON — It seems as if violence is everywhere, but it’s really on the run. Yes, thousands of people have died in bloody unrest from Africa to Pakistan, while terrorists plot bombings and kidnappings. Wars drag on in Iraq and Afghanistan. In peaceful Norway, a man massacred 69 youths in July. In [...]

The diamonds on your buckle, like the stars on old glory, demand attention, rising above your passing parade in which the light heartedness of children running to keep up belies the seriousness of those desperate wars now being celebrated. I salute it all (a hand over my heart) for nothing is ever as simple as [...]