Two kinds of goodbye

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With all the dying going on in the news I rarely get personally moved by the deaths here and the deaths there. But this picture that has been making its rounds on the internet made me care personally about this brother's loss.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3012/2522544597_6a5ff3e122_o.jpg

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[+2] - boomerang - 08/18/2008These kind of photos really tear me up. My brother will be going back to Iraq within the next 6 months; deployed for a year. We're both old and it still sucks. When I see these kids it...
[+2] - Diest TKO - 08/18/2008I have a little brother there now (2nd tour), and a friend who just returned (3rd tour, was wounded on his 2nd tour, but a stop loss order sent him back). I worry everyday. T K O
[+1] - blueveinedthrobber - 08/18/2008that IS very powerful. and it sucks.
[+1] - ossobuco - 08/18/2008Yes.
[+1] - Stormwatch - 08/18/2008Very sad.
[+1] - Chumly - 08/18/2008"Upon us all a little rain must fall"... The Rain Song
[+1] - devriesj - 08/20/2008[quote]that IS very powerful. and it sucks.[/quote] Amen.

@Robert Gentel,

that IS very powerful. and it sucks.

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@Robert Gentel,

Yes.

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These kind of photos really tear me up.

My brother will be going back to Iraq within the next 6 months; deployed for a year.

We're both old and it still sucks.

When I see these kids it just kills a little bit of me.

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@Robert Gentel,

Very sad.

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@Robert Gentel,

I have a little brother there now (2nd tour), and a friend who just returned (3rd tour, was wounded on his 2nd tour, but a stop loss order sent him back).

I worry everyday.

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Two kinds of goodbye

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