On Monday, James Taranto commented on an article about military uniforms not picked up at dry aleaners. The insinuation was that these uniforms belonged to military killed in action. On Tuesday a military wife commented that due to frequent moves, uniforms were often forgotten in the moving process. "One 'How Many' Too Many
A Monday item prompted this comment from reader Rollie Smith:
The piece on unclaimed Marine uniforms takes me back to the piece you did on the piles of shoes at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. The guy didn't like your questions. I have questions for the New York Times:
How much unclaimed laundry there was after Sept. 11?
How many prescriptions were never picked up?
How many dental appointments missed?
How many dinner reservations missed?
How many paychecks uncashed?
How many birthday cards and presents never opened?
How many do-it-youself projects never got that last touch-up of paint?
How many cars in the shop had no owners to pick them up?
I could go on. So could you.
We may never know why the uniforms have gone unclaimed, and we'll never know how many 'how manys' after 9/11. But if the uniforms are unclaimed due to the reason the Times implies, it is because there were too many how manys.
Exactly right."
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