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I'm a supervisor. I have once, maybe twice at the most, posted about a woman in my department with a son who joined the Marines, only to be sent almost instantly to Iraq.
She has told me things that he's described in Iraq that made me physically ill.
She told me things that her son's unit was being told to do, to prepare for the next war, that scared me.
He just returned for his second tour.
I worried for her son and for her. Today, she came to my office, in tears. She didn't need to say a word.
An IED, 0700 on 9/09/06. I want to relate her description of dealing with the "call center" that's used to notify families of the dead, the injured. But, I can only rage, right now.
BTW, her son is being flown to Bethesda, where she will be waiting. She and her husband are being given tickets to fly out to be with him. "The shrapnel hit his face."
"He's serious, so we're going to fly you out to Maryland."
He's 19.
FUGWB. MKJ
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