I do. My brother served in Iraq, he was a company commander in the 1st Armored Division. He was not part of the initial wave, but went in at the beginning of May 2003, shortly before Bush made his "end of major operations" speech. He was not part of the first wave because his units tanks were in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea waiting to land in Turkey. When that didn't happen, his unit's materiel was re-routed to Kuwait.
My brother served for 3 months in Iraq. He rotated out and is now fortunate (in that no one is shooting at him) to be stationed in Texas. There is a very real possibility that he could go back into the meat grinder.
His wife is now serving a 1 year tour of duty in Iraq. She is a JAG Officer a prosecuting attorney at a base outside Baghdad. Every time I hear about a roadside bomb or a car bomb or an attack "near a military base" that take the life of a US soldier, I think about my sister-in-law Grace and the fact that she might be the one that died.
And it rips my heart out.
I do not wish that feeling on anyone.
>If my son ever wanted to serve the country and died in war, i'd bury him
>with the highest of honors because he was brave enough to die for what he
>believed in.
Good for you, just don't expect the sitting President to attend the funeral.
In the words of General Douglas MacArthur:
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
will
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