Unbelievable

[Jackie]

I got a phone call this morning saying that my nephew who's stationed in Afghanistan was badly injured. It was a tense few hours but he's stable. He is a Sergeant... It turns out that he and his 8 men were in a truck, following another truck, when the first truck hit an IUD. All the men in the second truck surrounded the injured in the first, forming a circle to protect them until help could arrive. They waited three hours. Then they saw a man walking fast toward them. Shaun, my nephew, raised his rifle and ordered him to stop. The man started running very fast toward them and then -- I don't know if Shaun got a shot off --- but the man blew himself up. Shaun was hit by shrapnel in the leg and is going into surgery tonight.

How crazy are these people out there? OMG. What was going on in that man's mind? I can't even comprehend the intense hatred for Americans that must lie behind that suicide.

We are all just relieved Shaun is alive. But when is this stupid, pointless, counterproductive exercise in futility that we call a war ever going to end? When are we going to stop the bleeding--life,limb and treasure, all for naught.

It's just nuts. And still unbelievable, IMHO.

Jackie