Sad coincedense

[cs]

You may have heard about the latest casuality, a Sgt Sullivan who was scheduled to go home in 10 days and took a convoy for a sick friend and was killed and his baby born the next day.

Found out that his grandfather lives just two doors down from me and that is who I bought my latest car from.

Sad but true.

Chad

[Norman Bernstein]

You may have heard about the latest casuality, a Sgt Sullivan who was scheduled to go home in 10 days and took a convoy for a sick friend and was killed and his baby born the next day.

Found out that his grandfather lived just two doors down from me and that is who I bought my latest car from.

Sad but true.

Chad

I tried posting a personal biography of a soldier killed in Iraq, here in the bilge... and it barely raised an eyebrow.... yet I read these personal stories, and I can feel the grief of strangers as if I knew them.

Maybe if we posted the biographies of every dead US serviceman as they occurred, some people would get to experience this 'remote control' war in a way which might change their minds about it.

[Chris Coose]

Does there have to be tragic circumstances to make a young soldier's death any different than the next dead or mangeled young person?
Not in my book.

I know what you intend here Chad. I'm with Teetsel. The meat grinder does not discriminate.

[ishmael]

I mourn for the dead, and their families. But the problem here is with the national will. We lost 7,000 some dead, more than twice the current number in Iraq, in one day at Normandy. We knew it was horrific, but we knew it was necessary. We don't know that now about Iraq.

[Bruce Hooke]

How tragic.

What these individual stories do is put a "face" on the statistics.

I have a friend who has a friend whose son (or maybe it's his daughter) is in Iraq. At the end of the News Hour with Jim Lehrer they often show pictures of the soldiers (and other members of the armed forces) who have died in Iraq, along with basic information like their rank and home town. I always dread that I will see someone from the small town my friend lives in...

I know we should care about every death equally, but that's not the way the human brain works. We need stories to go with the name...

[John of Phoenix]

Maybe if we posted the biographies of every dead US serviceman as they occurred, some people would get to experience this 'remote control' war in a way which might change their minds about it.


3000 stories @ 40/page = a 75 page thread.
Quite a perspective.

[BrianW]

Sorry to hear about this death, from some one so close to your home.

[htom]

... Maybe if we posted the biographies of every dead US serviceman as they occurred, some people would get to experience this 'remote control' war in a way which might change their minds about it.

I fear that they're too far gone into their alternate reality of "peace through surrender", and would only use such to further their cause.

[elf]

Religion is stronger than war.