As a former Marine myself, I share your loss as both a brother of your nephew and fellow American. War is hell.
There are those that would pretend to share our grief, then in the next breath call for an end to our mission in Iraq. And to those people, best represented in the images of a debauched Teddy Kennedy, a face-lifted and phoney John Kerry, and the entire Monday Morning quaterbacks of the DNC, I can only thing of a five word sentance.
TELL IT TO THE MARINES.