Is there no good news in the world? There's precious little in this thread.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

Many of them simply signed up for the national guard out of a sense of patriotism after 9/11. I'm sure they never in a million years envisioned that they would be sitting in an Iraqi desert being shot at and bombed.

Or, as in Pat Tilman's case, being killed by your own and then having it get covered up and then used for propoganda by the military and far right.