Fallen trooper didn't believe in war

[babylonsister]

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=9458

Fallen trooper didn't believe in war

Dreamed of military glory as kid growing up on D-M air base

By Carol Ann Alaimo / Arizona Daily Star

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Her son's messages from the front lines often were wrenching, Michele Brevard said.

He was distressed, she said, that the soldiers in his platoon were severely sleep-deprived, often going for 10 days at a time with no more than a two-hour nap here and there. And he was outraged at the attitudes of the Iraqis he met.

For example, the Iraqi police, who are supposed to be preparing to take over the country's security, sometimes flat-out refused to perform their duties, her son wrote.

"They told our guys, 'Why don't you (expletive) go home," she quoted her son as saying.

"He said, 'Our guys are dying over there, and those people don't even care,' " Michele Brevard said.

She said she's sharing her son's observations because she believes it is what he would have wanted.

He strongly believed the U.S. public does not fully understand how badly things are going in Iraq and how thinly stretched the military is, she said.

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[crim son]

1. Isn't "military glory" an oxymoron?

No matter. Poor kid, he paid the ultimate price for a simple lesson.

[madokie]

2. and you cannot blame the Iraqi's for any of this either