Yes it hurts like 'ell. We love these guys like they are our own kin and grieve for the lives lost.
Did you know that nearly 500,000 Americans were killed in WW2? Imagine the magnitude of the grief. Imagine if those Americans had not made the sacrifice. Imagine our children's world if we do not win this. Imagine an oil rich Iraq under the control of AQ/Iran. Imagine the mass slaughter of civilians. The enemy has demonstrated they are a dishonorable enemy - inhuman dishonor which goes deep within them. They must be destroyed.
OK. I am finished preaching to the choir.
“Did you know that nearly 500,000 Americans were killed in WW2? Imagine the magnitude of the grief.”
The “magnitude of grief” as you put it is no different for 1 of 500,000 than it is for 1 of 3,333. That dog won’t hunt. Also, unless someone just crawled out of a hole, they know the casualties were much higher in previous wars. But, that’s not the point for most who are unhappy with the war. For me, anyway, it’s that our strategy keeps changing and that our Army and Marine Corps are too small for the mission. Never ending tours are wearing out the small military that we do have.
Read 179. FSE is there as a Stryker Platoon Leader.