Posted by finelinebob on September 9, 2006, at 3:08:11
In reply to Re: The Body Count...., posted by Declan on September 8, 2006, at 19:22:37
> In today's paper it was put at 2,974 (military deaths in the war on terrorism), so that's Afghanistan as well.
True enough. I had not included stats from Afganistan ... so here we are approaching the 5th anniversary of 9/11 and we're at the break even point. We've gotten as many of our people killed as they did to us. What a lovely way to pay tribute to all involved.
And Jost's points are also well taken. My first time back with my GP here in NYC, talking about my own PTSD, he brought up how we have a good part of a generation (again) who will be suffereing from it, and the look of pain on his face was almost unbearable. And it's not just the mind/head wounds. Lost sight. Lost hearing. Lost limbs.
Having left New York for a while, or even through correspondence before I left and now that I'm back, people elsewhere tell me that they cannot imagine what it must have been like to be in the City that day, or to have been as close as I was, or even closer. And they're right. They'll never know it. But when their husbands and wives, sons and daughters, friends and neighbors return from Iraq, they WILL have that horrible experience brought back into their homes and neighborhoods. And then, maybe, some will learn.
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