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My uncle belongs to that same Ohio unit that lost so many people a month or so ago, and I've got friends from high school and college in the army and navy over there too. It's really hard checking the list every day to see who's not coming back or who is coming back early because they're injured beyond the ability to be fit for duty ever again. I've been lucky so far. No major injuries among my friends and family yet.
I'm glad you've had the chance to see your friend and he came home ok for his leave.
I wanted to say something non-political about how war affects families and all of us, but frankly, I can't come up with anything that doesn't end with "if this was about anything but a few rich old white guys getting fatter and richer because war is good business then Bush would be on the front lines with a gun instead of staying in Washington like a coward", because very nearly every person in this country now knows someone who is in or has been in Iraq and we live in fear every day not of terrorists but that our loved ones won't be coming home while they get pushed around like checkers by people who've never been in the military or had to face death themselves, who suffer no consequences if they get five, five hundred, or five thousand of our people killed. And for what? The whole thing makes me too angry to just accept it and say something nice about it. There is nothing nice about it to be said.
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