I am watching "Ambush at the River of Secrets" on CNN...these guys are just babies!

[w8liftinglady]

It is about how a unit of Marines is affected by an IED attack.How mindfuc%ed these poor guys will be.At least CNN is showing it,their families,and their tearful buddies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/28/acd.02.html
This excerpt from the transcript was particularly disturbing
FOREMAN: Dick Linn is driving in the rain on a business trip when the cell phone rings. The Marines are trying to find him. He drives 40 minutes back home, dreading the news he would hear. Then he goes to find his wife at her job.

DICK LINN, FATHER OF KARL LINN: It's the hardest thing I've ever, ever had to do. She -- she screamed about four times in a row. And I don't know which is more devastating than, you know -- knowing your son is dead or having to tell his mom.

FOREMAN: Karl's mother did not want to talk publicly about his death. But in private, she prays for him every day.

Jesse Strong was the first confirmed fatality; his parents, Vicki and Nate, the last to know. They have just returned home late when they hear a knock.

VICKI STRONG, MOTHER OF JESSE STRONG: They did not have to say a single word. We knew the only reason there would be two Marines in dress blues at our doorstep at 9:30 at night was because our son had been killed. So I immediately just -- I said, "Oh, Jesse," was my first word.

FOREMAN: Vicki calls their other children Heather and Matthew in Pittsburgh.

HEATHER STRONG, SISTER OF JESSE STRONG: She told me on the phone. I just said, "Tell Matthew." And I handed him the phone. And I started shaking uncontrollably for basically the whole night.

V. STRONG: It's like your life just suddenly stopped. And that everything you knew from the second up until that moment, totally changed.



God Damn these war criminals.

[TacticalPeek]

1. Babies? Maybe from some perspectives.

But graybeards, also, after that.