Here's your concrete symbolism for you: While pictures of the closure of Congress showed mostly rich, white males escaping the threat of anthrax, photographs of the Washington post office where the anthrax killed two people showed mostly African American postal workers. Nobody warned them. Nobody tested them. Nobody thought to protect them, even though the anthrax aimed at Rep. Tom Daschle's office passed through their hands and machines. Postal workers are taken for granted, much like the soldiers who will die in Afghanistan. They aren't rich men's sons. Unlike members of Congress, they don't have power or money, hard or soft.