I'm so upset, I can't even talk. My brother's friend was killed in Iraq.

[Aristus]

He wasn't even over there for two weeks. My brother and his girlfriend just had dinner with him a couple of weeks ago, before he deployed.

He was injured when his deuce-and-a-half struck a mine, and he didn't survive the trip to the hospital.

I can't even speak.

[Brucey]

1. I am terribly, terribly sorry.

Please send DU condolences to all the loved ones.

[4323Lopez]

2. So sorry for your loss

At least it wasn't your brother

[Aristus]

6. Thank you. I never even met him, actually. I'm upset because my

brother is in pain, and because another life was needlessly snuffed out. When all is said and done, all he'll be remembered for by the people of this country is that he was #400. That's all the notice he will rate, I'm afraid. And of course, his death is just a sign that the Iraqi resistance is "getting desperate".

:mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr:

[proud patriot]

3. :-(

:-(

[Scott Lee]

4. Thoughts and blessings out to your friend's family

And keep the faith. We're gonna end this.

[dolo amber]

5. Everytime I hear things like this

I just get more and more angry. :grr:

So very sorry about your loss, Aristus. Try to be strong for your brother. :hug:

edit: I read it wrong, I thought it was your friend's brother, not the other way round. :(

[mvd]

7. Very sorry

:-(

[jiacinto]

8. I am so sorry

nt

[eileen_d]

9. Tragic.

My sympathies to you, your brother, and the man's family and friends. Take care of yourselves.

[supernova]

10. Terribly sorry, Aristus

Damn that's a shame! My thoughts are with his family and yours.

[Lefta Dissenter]

11. I am so incredibly sorry

I came to my computer already in tears, because MSNBC was reporting the numbers killed and wounded in this morning's helicopter downings. It just hit me so hard that so many more families have their lives and hopes and dreams crushed day after day.

I can't tell you how sad I am for all of you who are experiencing this unbelievable loss. I have a 19-year-old daughter and a 22-year-old son, and I just can't imagine being able to withstand the pain of losing one of them.

My very best wishes to all of you.

Katy

jeez, isn't there some way I can remove my cheery little signature graphic from just this post? It seems so terribly inappropriate.

[Skittles]

12. I am deeply sorry, Aristus

your post took me back to sixth grade in Madison, Wisconsin, remembering a classmate crying because her brother had been killed in Viet Nam. It's viscious.

[Lars39]

13. I'm so sorry.

Please extend condolances to your brother and his friend's family. :(

[VelmaD]

14. I don't even know what to say...

condolences to your brother on his loss.

This is for you :hug:

[WilliamPitt]

15. God damn it God damn it God damn it God damn it God damn it

I'm so sorry.

[zbird]

16. I am so sorry.

I sit here at my computer with tears rolling down my face for yet another senseless loss of life.

Hugs to you, your brother and his friend's family and friends.

[WillyT]

17. Fuck...

I'm really sorry man. Give your brother a hug. There are no words good enough right now.

:hug:

[Raenelle]

18. I'm so sorry.

[corarose]

19. OMG That is so sad

Sorry to hear about him that is so sad.

[Kellanved]

20. Oh my god

My deepest condolences.

[ikojo]

21. Aristus, I am so sorry

for your loss.

[Zomby Woof]

22. such a waste

I am sorry for this, Aristus. It is a terrible waste, all of this. I am speechless and saddened.

[GOPisEvil]

23. Damn; I remember you posting about his deployment.

Condolences to his family and yours.

[Aristus]

29. Thanks, GOP, old buddy. This was a different guy.

The guy I wrote about a while back hasn't deployed yet. I hope he will be okay. The one who got killed was a guy my brother knew for about two years. My brother's other friend is a guy I used to room with, and whom my brother has known for twelve or thirteen years. This really brings it home for me. This is like things I've read about Vietnam; a family would see a friend off to Southeast Asia, and then hear about his death a few weeks or months later.

How the hell did this happen? Don't we EVER learn anything?

[catzies]

24. That is awful. Much sympathy to you, your brother, and his friend's family

Such an absolute, awful, tragic waste.

My heart goes out to you and your brother's friend's family and to every family who has a loved one in danger and so far away.

:hug:

[UrbScotty]

25. What?! Oh no!

I'm hoping for the best for you, your brother, and his friend.

He is in my thoudghts and prayers.

[rasputin1952]

26. My thoughts and prayers are with you and the family of the...

the soldier lost.

I am becoming jaded, I have reached the point where tears do not come anymore, all ii feel now is anger at the sensless loss of our soldiers.

bush will go to GB to meet with the families of those lost in the Brit Army....but ours come home to silence and censure? I never thopught I would wish this particular curse on anyone...but:

"Goddamn you bush! May your shriveled soul rot in a hell of your own making"!


:grr: :grr: :grr:

[Darranar]

27. That is very, very sad...

My sympathies for you, your brother, and his family.

[Johnyawl]

28. damndamndamndamndamn

give my condolences to your brother

[Aristus]

30. Thanks, Johnyawl. I plan on drinking a toast to his memory tonight.

Will you and geniph be able to make it? I hope so, but understand if you can't.

[soleft]

31. I wish words could do more to comfort, so sorry to hear this

[alphafemale]

32. Tears. Cause there are no words.

Go hug somebody. Go into the woods and scream.

Take a drive in the country and cry.

[Aristus]

36. I'm crying right now. I didn't even KNOW him. That's the sad part.

Now I never will. He was important to my brother, so he was important to me as well.

I'm cleaning up and doing housework. Every once in a while, I just break down and cry for a few minutes. Thank you for being there for me and my brother right now. I can't even imagine my brother's pain.

[shanti]

33. you have my sympathies, fellow DUer

that is really fucked up:-(

WE NEED TO BRING OUR KIDS HOME NOW!!!!!

[Kamika]

34. Was he a gungho "lets kill em all" or a normal guy?

Just curious

[Solly Mack]

35. My deepest sympathies

((((((((((((((((((((((()))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[tom_paine]

37. I am sorry for your and your brother's loss, Aristus.

Tragic enough to lose someone in a war, but how much worse when the war is a lie for for nothing besides the enrichment of some Imperial Cronies and the Right of the Emperor to destroy the Constituion and Bill of Rights.

[Festivito]

38. We pledge to serve our country because we love it.

The friend's fight is done. Our's continues.

Thank you for your sacrifice, and that of your brother, and of the friend's family, and the other friends touched by this one life.