He's coming home. At least, most of him. [View All]

I posted here several weeks ago about a young Lieutenant I met at a friend's wedding. I learned that he was on his way back to Iraq within days. As an old combat infantryman, I struck up a conversation with him. He talked about why he fights, and how it has nothing to do with any of Bush's bullshit. Just like myself, and every other grunt I ever met, he fought for the guys beside him. I begged any DUers who might encounter him (or any of his brothers and sisters in arms) on the street, if he made it home, to remember that one salient fact. He and the rest took an oath to defend this country, and that's what they are doing. It's not his fault that the current civilian leadership of this nation is headed up by a cabal of chickenhawk corporate criminals. They told him where to go, and he went. Well, he's coming home. Missing his left eye, most of his left arm, and needing further thoracic surgery to help repair his left lung. IED. The friend who's wedding we attended called me this morning. I'll probably head out to Walter Reed to see him in a couple of days. But not today. I'm afraid I might see an SUV with a Bush bumper sticker right above the ribbon proclaiming support for our troops. If that happened today I might hurt somebody.