500 in 7 yrs
why, that's a little more than one soldier a week! what are we doing in afghanistan? it's a quagmire!
and then this:
it's like bushco grown tired of beating the drums of war & has passed off to the gray lady. such bravery
and finally:
why, that's a little more than one soldier a week! what are we doing in afghanistan? it's a quagmire!
and then this:
and on & on w/ more grim reminders of this forgotten conflict.Not long after Staff Sgt. Matthew D. Blaskowski was killed by a snipers bullet last Sept. 23 in eastern Afghanistan, his mother received an e-mail message with a link to a video on the Internet. A television reporter happened to have been filming a story at Sergeant Blaskowskis small mountain outpost when it came under fire and the sergeant was shot.
Since then, Sergeant Blaskowskis parents, Cheryl and Terry Blaskowski of Cheboygan, Mich., have watched their 27-year-old son die over and over. Ms. Blaskowski has taken breaks from work to watch it on her computer, sometimes several times a day, studying her sons last movements.
it's like bushco grown tired of beating the drums of war & has passed off to the gray lady. such bravery
and finally:
cueing special comment from keith ubermenschI think it isnt true, and he will call in the middle of the night like he used to, she said. We would sleep lightly to listen for that blessed phone call.
Now, she added, we dont sleep well at all.