We lost two of the best in the suicide-bomber driven VBIED in Kabul, Afghanistan on 08 SEP 06. I'll let my photo on my flickr.com account speak for me here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/violinsoldier/237698985/
Flickr.com is part of yahoo, and you can log in and leave comments there, too. I also have a lot of pictures of my year in Afghanistan there - feel free to look around.
I'll be leaving Afghanistan in about 26 days (on/about my birthday). I'll be glad to finally come home after a year in this country, but these memories will follow me to my grave. I'll do everything in my power to ensure that SSG Paul and SFC Howard will *never* be forgotten...
(Please visit my friend Hollis's blog, too - he recently wrote about the loss of these two fine soldiers. He can be found among my top friends on my MySpace home page - I am also violinsoldier there ...)
I originally posted this on 11 SEP 06 on MySpace.
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So sorry, VS. And disappointed there wasn't more coverage on this.
It's right to honor the people who died on 9/11. They did a scroll on CNN that day of all the people who died.
Something they don't do is the same damn thing for the people dying every day.
I suppose it's too politically and emotionally charged. Some might see it as opportunity to continue pushing objectives that don't seem to make any sense.
Makes me think of WW I when someone would say, "Go! Run up there! Avenge your fallen brothers," knowing that more men would die, and thinking, 'Yeah, that's how it goes, but MAYBE enough will get through, we can take their line.'
I just wish the super smart were in charge of making those sorts of decisions.
Others might see a scroll of names and faces as one-sided, suggesting we should also post the civilians dying.
It's all a mess.
But your two friends were doing their jobs, trying to help, and they should have had some sort of tribute.
I mean, if there's time for crap TV, there's time to say, "You will be missed."
Just my opinion.
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