One year ago

[sea_wren]

One year ago today, an Army Humvee carrying 5 soldiers went out on night patrol in Baghdad. Part of an engineering battalion, they were, in addition to their duties of finding and disarming IEDs, testing structural integrity of buildings and bridges, and making repairs, assigned to night patrol on a dangerous stretch of road that insurgents

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[prophetkristy]

*refrains from comments 'cuz blood pressure is already high enough thanx*

*hugs*

[sea_wren]

Awww, didn't mean to upset you with this. Was just having dark thoughts.

Thanks for the hug :)

[prophetkristy]

It ain't your fault--there are much bigger fish to fry over folks' brothers losing limbs. And if everyone hugged more, I think we wouldn't be in this mess :o)