Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Way too close for comfort

My son emailed me a few hours ago:

i got blown up yesterday.... we got lucky though, they missed the truck by foot, just peppered the truck with shrapnel, blew off some mirrors and some headlights. no injuries, no concusssions or nothin. little bit harder of hearing now, but me and my whole crew are fine.
Can someone please explain to me again why he's there?

I don't mind at all that he has an incredibly risky life. He's a career soldier and loves it. But I haven't heard anyone, in ages, explain exactly just what the hell he's risking his life for in this particular deployment. We're not making America any safer or Afghanistan any better. They're just letting my son and men like him drive around offering themselves up as targets for a bunch of ignorant savages who don't want us there anyway.



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