because a vision softly creeping...

A friend's son joined the Reserves. He is 20 years old. None of us really understands why he did this. We support his decision 100% though. He's almost completed all his training. With talk about a surge, he is now saying he is sure that he is going to have to go to Iraq. He is telling his friends that if he goes, he will die...

hello, darkness, my old friend...

Update: I just watched This Week on ABC. Near the end of the program, they do a section called In Memoriam. It lists the deaths of people this week who made a difference in the world. It always stops with the names of service members who died in Iraq this past week.

There were 13. The oldest was 26 years-old!

hello, darkness, my old friend...