Daniel's English 107 Blog.

Recently there was another bombing in the middle east, killing eight US troops and several Afghan civilians. It really is sad to see that these men and women are getting blown up by cowardly radicalists in the middle east. The article said that October has been the deadliest month this year for US troops with a total of 53 casusalties.

I read the article on the NY times website, and saw it on Fox news, the only bummer about the article is that they don't specify what type of bomb it was, they don't say if there was any confrontation between the troops and insurgents, or if the bomb was triggered by anything. I just would have liked some detail about the specific incident instead of stats about deaths in the middle east.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28afghan.html?_r=1&hp

My only problem with the article and with most of the news on casualties in the middle east is that we seem to be forgetting that this isn't the first time we have lost american lives overseas. Don't get me wrong, i'm not trying to downplay the sacrifice of these brave young men and women who deserve our respect. I'm simply saying that does no one remember World War 2, World War 1, the Civil War even, Korea, Vietnam, where 53 casualties could happen in one day let alone a month. We have a long military history in my family and i understand sacrifice, and i also understand that men and women who enlist know full well what they are getting themselves into, people in America don't seem to understand that being in harms way is what the military does, we are all like " we need to get our troops out of harms way"...well if you didn't know thats what military is for, they put themselves in harms way to keep us here at home out of harms way. anyways...I'm done ranting. Bottom line is i would still have liked to known if this was a car bomb, suicice bomb, or some other type of bomb. and what do you think about sending more troops to Iraq, or bringing some home??