So my colleague loses

[ewoden]

I'm sitting in cubicle land today when a co-worker gets a call. It's his wife and he is trying to calm her down. Asking to explain why she's crying. Then he drops to his knees, white as a sheet. Drops the phone and begins to cry.

I rush to his cube. Pick up the phone, more tears and crying on the other end. My buddy reaches up and takes the phone from my hand and hangs up. Fighting back the tears he says his son has just been reported KIA.

God I hate this war!! We need to get these kids home.

Oh by the way, Thunderbirds made a flyby today, nobody in our office gave a damn.

[ClassWarrior]

1. THIS is why we need to work our asses off till Nov. 7...

...and then BEYOND.

Condolences, my friend.

Never Give Up.

[MadMaddie]

2. I am sorry to hear this....

This story is being played across America at an excellerated rate.....the * cabal can no longer hide the numbers of American soldiers dying and severely wounded.....

My prayers are with your coworker and his family...

[SharonAnn]

13. I remember this during the Vietnam War. Coworkers getting calls

that their fiance, brother, cousin, boyfriend had been killed.

It's unbelievable that we didn't learn from that.

It's unbelievable that Americans allowed GWB to ever be "commander in chief".

[MadMaddie]

16. It is Vietnam revisted...Part II

we have some of the same irresponsible players that were involved then....they are involved now....

[Arugula Latte]

25. We did learn, for awhile. Then the rightwing propaganda machine

kicked in with full force and turned all the lessons on their head, filled people's minds with propaganda and lies. A new generation came up ignorant of history.

We're reaping the consequences.

[babylonsister]

3. THIS is why we need to get the warmongers OUT OF THERE!

My heart bleeds for their loss, and yours.
Not one more life, American or Iraqi, is worth this!

[rhiannon55]

4. wow. I am so sorry

I hate this fucking war. And I hate the evil bastards who started it and won't let it end.

[liberalmuse]

5. How utterly horrible!

What do you say when something like this happens? I can't even imagine the grief this war has brought to so many people, and the all the cause of it can do is mindlessy gab about suits. I'm so sorry!

[ewoden]

7. You don't say much

I know of war loss. Lost a brother in Beruit. Lost a whole bunch of buddies and my innocense in Nam. I can't say much to this guy though cuz my son is back home from his second tour in Iraq.

No way is my kid going back!! he still has all his fingers and toes, but when he arrived home I saw the thousand yard stare. We had a loooong hard talk about it. His war is so very different from my war and vets don't usually relate well across the wars. However, I told him that I can see in his eyes his fate if he goes back and it ain't good. Combat vets eventually get "the look" when their nerves/resolve/expectations are going south on them. Those of you who have seen the elephant know what I am saying.

[calimary]

6. Damn. Just DAMN.

I'm so sorry to hear this...

YES, we HAVE TO work our asses off, so the bad guys get the snot beaten out of them next month. They need a good shellacking, so WE can take over and get our troops OUT OF THERE. Let's do it for this newly bereaved family, 'eh? So there won't be ANY MORE like them!!! NOT ANOTHER DEATH!!!!! NOT ANOTHER TEARDROP!!!!!!! NOT ANOTHER FLAG-DRAPED COFFIN!!!!!!! NO MORE!!!!!!

[countmyvote4real]

8. Fuck!

I'm so sorry for your co-worker and his family. When they are ready, they should seek out contact with Cindy Sheehan and other Gold Star families. They have been there and are a few steps ahead in the process of "dealing" with their lost loved one in this still highly debatable war. Not all Gold Star families agree about the validity of this war that sacrificed the lives of their loved ones. However, they choose to view it, I am truly sorry for their loss.

The * administration and their policies are literally destroying the people of our country and the world for personal gain, madness or both. It's sometimes hard to tell.

[Quantess]

9. They needed to come home a couple of years ago.

This has got to stop.

[Branjor]

17. They *needed* to have never gone.

n/t

[lostnotforgotten]

10. What Can One Say - Too Bad Too Many Are So Enamored

With the chimp.

His ass needs to spend a week in Iraq.

Sorry I am not more profound but I am just tired and fed up with the world created by him and his kind.

[Wheezy]

11. Condolences...

[driver8]

12. Oh My God... that is terrible.

I cannot imagine the pain one must feel to lose a child...especially to lose a child in this quagmire we are in.

My condolences to you and your friend.

[DesertRat]

14. How terrible! I heard bad news today too

I went into work this morning and learned that our principal's son was just seriously wounded in an ambush in Afghanistan. He was flown to Germany and she was able to briefly speak with him.
I hate these stupid wars.

[question everything]

15. This is awful. And to hear about this on a phone call

couldn't the military send someone in person to talk to the parent? To both of them?

[semillama]

20. What probably happened

was the military sent someone to the home, and informed the guy's wife, who then called him. Military policy is always to break the news in person at the home. The republicans might not give a damn about the military, but the actual military sure does.

[Lasher]

24. Might have been better if his wife had told him in person.

Or maybe have sent someone to do that. But who could criticize the poor woman's judgment at a time like that?

There's a couple who lived nearby until recently, who lost a son in Vietnam. His name was Jimmy Crose and I graduated from high school with him. We rode the bus together and he was a cool guy.

His parents never got over his death. They stopped going to church and didn't ever go back, harboring bitterness all the rest of their lives. I noticed about a year ago their house was empty. I don't know where they went but I'm sure being at least in their late 70s had something to do with that.

Lots of sad stories in those days, and in these.

[question everything]

26. I know that. But, perhaps they can make an extra effort

to send team to both places.

What a horrible task for the military personnel whose job is to do this.

[elehhhhna]

18. no no no, no words.

[July]

19. I'm so sorry.

I have no other words.

[Raster]

21. War is a good business. Invest a child.

[rockymountaindem]

22. Holy cow

I have no idea what that might be like. Well, actually I kind of do, but still, that's just awful. God be with them.

[Nimrod2005]

23. Fuck the criminal leaders of this country....There is no value in us being

there........NONE.

[kath]

31. Well, there is value for the rich oil guys and the military-industrial

complex and Halliburton, and they're the people that really matter in this country. Fuck everyone else...

[MrCoffee]

27. how awful. there aren't words to express it.

[hsher]

28. :(

I am very sad hearing that. Sad and angry. What the fuck did he die for? Oil? Brag points? "Strategy"? GOD DAMN THIS, FUCKING ALL OF THIS.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

29. Oh no...I'm so so sorry

My deepest and most sincere thoughts, prayers, condolences and sympathies to your colleague and his family What a tragedy -so many innocent, young and promising lives being lost

Once again my thoughts, prayers, deepest sympathies and condolences to your colleague and his family and friends. No family should have to go through this

[many a good man]

30. What a goddam bummer

May all these bush bastards rot in hell! This really brings it home.

(Fellow G'burger here sending condolences)

[wicket]

32. I am so sorry

[frogcycle]

33. My sympathies to your colleague, his wife, family and friends