The Real Meaning of 4,000 Dead

[ckramer]

Source: yn

The number 4,000 is too great to grasp even for us that are here in Iraq. When we soldiers read the newspaper, the latest AP casualty figures are glanced over with the same casual interest as a box score for a sport you don't follow. I am certain that I am not alone when I open up the Stars and Stripes, the military's daily paper, and immediately search for the section with the names of the fallen to see if they include anyone I know. While in a combat outpost in southwest Baghdad, it was in that distinctive bold Ariel print in a two-week-old copy of the Stars and Stripes that I read that my best friend had been killed in Afghanistan. No phone call from a mutual friend or a visit to his family. All that had come and gone by the time I had learned about his death. I sometimes wonder, if I hadn't picked up that paper, how much longer I would have gone by without knowing - perhaps another day, perhaps a week or longer until I could find the time and the means to check my e-mail to find my messages unanswered and a death notification from a West Point distro list in my inbox. The dead in Afghanistan don't seem to inspire the keeping of lists the same way that those in Iraq do, but even if they did it wouldn't matter; he could only be number 7 to me.



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Shame on Hillary voted for this war!

She hasn't admitted she was wrong yet.

[tchunter]

1. shame on obama for continuing it

he's voted to continue funding it, he may be against it but he's shown just as much moral turpitude by complacently allowing it continue

neither's hands are clean

[angstlessk]

2. shame on mccain for wanting to keep us there for 100 years!! n/t

[Caria]

3. RIP Kevin Bewley

His mother's response to Jack Cafferty is powerful.

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/26/should-military-be-allowed-to-tell-its-story-in-public-schools/

"From the age of 12 onward young people need to be confronted with reality in situations like this. They need to be able to see the difference in a leader who “brings it on” by HIS dwindling levels of testerone and sends out the best of the best to meet HIS needs verses a leader, man or woman, red or yellow, black or white who seeks the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth."