Our military has suffered a loss as eight United States service members were killed by roadside bombs on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. The day before-- Monday, October 26-- fourteen soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash. That has been the record for the most Americans killed in a 24 hour period for four years. If you add the two deaths that occurred on Sunday, October 25, that brings the number to a terrible number: 24 deaths in 48 hours. October has been the worst month as far a deaths go, in Afghanistan since 2001. The numbers keep climbing up as more and more of our soldiers die.
Friends, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters are dying. American people are being killed I type. And yet we are sending more loved ones to the same fate. The statistics shown above portray the soldiers as numbers. They are people. They had families, children, a house, a career, goals, and at the risk of sounding cliche-- dreams. That has ended for them. It is gone. There are 58 that died this October. They are gone. And there is some sympathy for them, but mostly people are thinking, "Christ, that's awful. But thank God it doesn't affect me." I agree with Kate Gearman's view that we aren't in the direct line of fire so we don't think of it as quite so horrible. Americans who remain in the good ol' U.S. have a mentality of out of sight out of mind. That needs to change. Immediately.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/27/afghan.deaths/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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