Reply #11: My husband was in Iraq for a year...I had to do SOMEthing... [View All]

[LynnTheDem]

So I got involved with Pat & Michael on ICC (the "graveyard" shift).

I felt if I were the one getting the names first, my husband's name wouldn't be one of them. Several names from his unit did appear. :(

But he & I were both lucky; his name never came up -altho there was one very close call- and he made it home safe & soundish.

It's very difficult to do; we have world-wide newsfeeds we search through, day & night after day & night, and the rest of the world is NOT like the US State Stenomedia...the rest of the world shows the blunt gut-wrenching REALITY, in words, photos and video. Then we also search for hometown obits and stories on WHO the killed soldier was; his hobbies, his family & friends. So they're not just some casualty number that most Americans don't give a flying fck about.

Michael gets hordes of hate email, how "anti-American" we are to bother counting our dead. Yes, like good patriots, we should all smile and shop and forget allllll about the dead American men, women and TEENAGERS that are dead because bush is a total fcking LIAR.

WE WILL NOT LET THEM LIE FORGOTTEN. THEY COUNT, THEIR LIVES COUNTED, and THEY WILL BE COUNTED.