Did we forget we're still at war?

You know, it feels like we're in an alternate political universe. I didn't think much of it at the time but, Mitt Romney and no speaker that I remember at the RNC convention ever spoke about the wars or invoked the US troop's virtue, courage, or our need for countrywide gratitude and support of them. It's almost as if they were forgotten. However, the hippy peace loving, weak on defense party spoke in depth on the wars, the need to have the above gratitude to and support of the troops, and the death of Osama Bin Laden.  Wild.

Does anyone even care about the troops in Afghanistan?! Does anyone even care about the widows, the widowers, the parentless children...? Do we even think for even a minute, let alone talk about the war that's still happening?  Right now?! Aren't we electing a president who controls the military?!  I'm confused.