American servicemen are being killed almost every day in Iraq. Men with wives who will never get the chance to become fathers. Men with children, who will never see their sons and daughters grow up and graduate from school, get married, have kids.
While I supported the decision to go to war, it disturbs me how easily and callously some of you either ignore or shrug off the human cost to our servicemen. Yes, they probably understood the risks of their profession when they signed up, but that doesn't mean we should consider their sacrifice as "just the cost of playing ball".
These people sacrificed their lives for the Iraqi people and for us. To me, there is no sacrifice more profound or sacred.
In forty or fifty years, there will be a generation of children who will look at a photograph and say "Hello, Grandpa, I wish I had known you", as I have done to the photograph of my grandfather who was killed on Jan. 17, 1945 while fighting to liberate Luxemburg.
Please don't ignore the cost of the this war, or belittle it. The sacrifice is real and continuing every week.
