Families mourn lost soldiers, question war

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061213/us_nm/iraq_usa_families_dc_1

HUMBOLDT, Kansas (Reuters) - U.S. Army National Guard Spc. John Wood is everywhere inside the quiet clapboard house just off the main street in Humboldt, Kansas.

Pictures of him in uniform in Iraq or smiling at home with his kids cover walls and tabletops. Wood's medals share a corner cabinet with a white teddy bear that reads "Hurry Home," and a folded American flag in a glass case rests on a windowsill.

On a December day, Wood's wife, Lannette, rests on a sofa with a flag-embroidered afghan around her shoulders and waits for delivery of his death certificate. Because even though Wood is everywhere, he is nowhere.

A day before he would have turned 38, on October 7, Woods, the father of four children ages 8 to 16, was killed by a roadside bomb. He was one of 106 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq in October, one the deadliest months for American soldiers since the United States launched the Iraq war in March 2003.

"He was supposed to be home on November 10," Lannette Wood, 34, said. "I could almost feel him home."



Lannette Wood, 34, holds a photo in her home in Humboldt, Kansas, on December 8, 2006, of her husband Kansas National Guard specialist John Wood who was killed in Iraq October 7, a month before his tour of duty was to end. Woods was one of 106 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq in October, one the deadliest months for U.S. soldiers since the U.S. launched the Iraq war in March 2003. (Carey Gillam/Reuters)

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[Mad_Dem_X]

1. It always hurts

to read about another soldier's death. My heart goes out to the family. :cry:

[judaspriestess]

2. "the cost is too high"

unfortunately its not for bushie. American soldiers are expendable to him, he does not care one bit about our troops. RIP our brothers and sisters.

[rodeodance]

3. more and more families are asking WHY --over time.