It's the tragedy and folly of all wars, whether it be my uncle buried in France or my two high school friends names on the Viet Nam memorial. A total waste any way you try to justify it. And that always applies to both sides in any conflict.

Maybe someday we'll be too civilized for this, but I doubt if it will be in our life times.

They had an HBO 1 hour program about fallen soldiers (kids 19-30 yrs old) with photos of their lives -highschool -- in country. While parents / spouse, read letters home, With the slow mail system, some got two more letters after they were dead. You got a real feel for their home life / them as a person , It was pretty well done.

Jesus man. I hate this. Sometimes this is so inhumanly hard. I hope there is something better after this life.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

The American Military Cemetary at Normandy, France.

War sucks. Man, does it suck. But, sometimes it's neccessary. I don't pretend to have all the answers to why we're fighting the wider war on terror, or why we're in Iraq, particularly, but we've gambled all on an idea that bringing democracy to the Middle East and solving the Israel/Palestine issue will help make it so that war, in the future, will become less and less likely.

Pray that we're right.