It's war. What is amazing to me is how few casualties we take. Doesn't make it any easier to live with but in the brutal arithmetic of war, the terrorists are losing badly. He told me about it and it was not pretty. A few months back he happened to be looking back at his rear vehicle in a convoy when the vehicle took sniper fire. He watched the vehicle commander, one of his men, die. These are the sort of images these men will live with the rest of their lives. How can anyone hear of stories like this and NOT honor them?