CNN sez Bush is planting a commemorative tree.

[Bicoastal]

What fir?

[lazyriver]

1. Hopefully it's a mature redwood and it's getting planted up his ass.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Green side UP......

[madokie]

3. or turned into a wooden stake

and then used as a wooden stake is used for.

[peekaloo]

4. Pussy Willow

legacy tree

[NightWatcher]

5. Bush has planted a forest here (a memorial to the fallen) pics

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5367800

Warriors' Walk: A Memorial to the Fallen

NPR.org, April 28, 2006 · Nearly everyone I talked with in Hinesville, Ga., knows someone at Fort Stewart. They have stories about the war to share; about their husbands or friends who have spent time in the Iraq desert. Soldiers talk about how all that dry heat takes some getting used to and how, now that they are back, small things -- watching a football game or going out for ice cream -- mean so much.

Almost everyone also mentions Warriors' Walk. I had heard about this place for the past two years, but only visited it this month. Trees stretch along both sides of Cottrell Field -- ironically, the same field where soldiers are welcomed home when they return from deployments. Red buds are planted on each side, one for each soldier from the Third Infantry Division who has died since Operation Iraqi Freedom began in 2003.

At the base of the trees, American flags often appear, along with flags representing the soldiers' units. A small concrete marker bears the name of each one. Often, families leave behind mementos: photos, a bottle of favorite beer, a toy tank, a crystal angel. Families linger slowly. Some say soldiers rarely visit here. It may be too sad, or just too scary. It is a profoundly solemn place.

Since the story, they have had to expand the growing forest several times and break up large pieces of sidewalk to make way for this shameful reminder of lives lost.

Dick surveys his handiwork