Your son and the other young folks over there are all heroes in my book, too. Much love to them all--and to all the loving parents who're enduring it. I want them all home, too.

I have a 20-year-old son, BlueCat. He's in college at the moment. (He's on holiday break, but that's where he normally is.) But he has friends and former high school classmates who're in Iraq and Afghanistan. I have two cousins who're there. Did you see the CNN special last week called "Combat Hospital"? It was fascinating. The work the medics do is just amazing. One of our other members, Dutch Pimp, was a comat medic in Vietnam. I'm a former fire department paramedic and now a med student, but what combat medics do is so far above what we did that it's just incredible. Anyway, my love and best wishes to your son--and to everyone else who's enduring this awful war.
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . I want to share this with anyone that will listen Below is my pride and joy my hero.... he has had 2 of his buddies commit suicide. This is what he does everyday non stop it is not pretty to look at but it is the reality of war. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0yergfOPiQ The truth does not change with our ability to stomach it. This was today's story when he called me. He had to remove the legs of a 19 year old who had stepped on an IED. This guy also lost his entire lower part of his face. My son went back to check on him and Rating: 5