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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Monday, October 31, 2005

2,024

Just like that, six more American soldiers dead. 2,000 last Wednesday; 2,024 by Monday.

Six American soldiers were killed Monday by roadside bombs in two separate attacks in Iraq, while U.S. jets bombed two insurgent safe houses near the Syrian border in an attack aimed at al-Qaida in Iraq, the U.S. command said.

You can tell me all you want about the body count. About how many we've killed or caputured, or how many weapons caches we've found. But our soldiers are still dying. Our soldiers are still dying at an increasing rate.

Whenever I see pictures or videos of soldiers coming home, even if it's on leave, the relief of the family always gets to me. The mother crying, alternating between holding his face and hugging him, speaking loudly about her baby or little man, the father standing quietly and uncomfortably in the background waiting. And then there's the wife who wraps herself around him and cries whispering quietly to him. She holds on. She holds on. She holds on like she's afraid someone is going to drag him away again. It's always the wives that make me cry.
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1 Comments:

  • Your comments on this really got to me. Really brought home the tragedy of this insane war.

    These are people who love each other. They don't want to see their soldiers die. It's awful. It's horrible. It's almost as if these men are under a kind of random death sentence, a reverse lottery, and the people who love them know this in their hearts. And it is a terrible pain.

    The photo you posted ought to be mailed to every member of Congress, especially the ones who continue to support this terrible slaughter. If this war hurts me this much, I can not even imagine how much it must hurt those wives and moms and dads.

    And then, finally, there are the caskets.

    By Blogger NEWSGUY, at 12:18 AM  

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