MSNBC;"Word spread fast. News passed fast in low voices, quiet conversations. No one wants to say it loudly. The Marines heard it and looked away. Their faces hardened. They swore. What else was there to say but goddammit. Man, was killed by a roadside bomb, set off by someone who was watching a U.S. Marine foot patrol finish its work. A half-hour later, another also was killed. But to the men here, this is a forgotten war. . The world hears what happens here only in a faint whispers. Isolated the men live packed bunk to bunk, they guard one another's backs, they depend on the group to help ward off fear and loneliness. And they face losses in their own searingly personal way. When one man is killed, the rest are asked to go back where he died, to face the same danger, in the name of duty. They do it, they say, for a country that expects it of them. You don't hear the blast. It doesn't register. It happens so fast. You see a ball of fire, black smoke, then shrapnel, dirt, trees and branches flying. You feel the heat. Then its over and someone dies... A half-hour later, the men heard the blast of another roadside bomb about a mile away man down, but, still alive. A Black Hawk helicopter on the way, Two men began mouth-to-mouth. For each breath they gave, they got a mouthful of blood. They took turns, vomiting between their efforts. The young man's eyes were glazed, heart stopped, life drained from the gaping wounds in his sides. He was dead before the helicopter landed.. The sun rises. The war goes on. Patrols go out. It's sad what you get accustomed to. Unfortunately, the routine just goes on. You feel guilty, but that's how it is."
I read this had to post it, not to be morbid. But to have truly make people see and read what really happens when our men/women go to war for us, some of you may read this and say I already know this and so do they I know we as well as them know its a war but.. It breaks my heart as a mother and human-being to know that we send our young people to something as cruel as this. I'm sorry many of you may not agree with me but I hate Wars!! Some of you may also say we go to war to protect our counrty.... Well how is men/women dieing helping our country....You Tell Me!!
