Patrick Murphy's latest blog post on MSNBC recalls the fellow soldiers he knew in Iraq and what has happened to some of them. Read "A soldier reflects: Those who had the least to lose sent us to war."
By coincidence I was revisiting tours of duty this evening myself. As has been mentioned here before I am an Army brat. When I was in first grade my father was a platoon sergeant in Viet Nam. He and my mother sent tapes back and forth. I recently rediscovered some of those old tapes and a recording was recoverable on one of them. My father died in 1993 so I was listening to a voice I hadn't heard in 20 years. My children never met him so they were hearing their grandfather for the first time. I made a copy for his only surviving sibling.
Soldiers overseas leave families at home; it's hard on everyone and the homecomings can be a difficult adjustment for all concerned. Right now a lot of soldiers are coming home. They need our support.
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