we dont do it to glamorize death you wimp!! We do it because someone needs protecting!! someone needs freedom!! someone needs US!! So take your wimpy behind back to the playground!! You calim to be a vet!! you are a wimp! Your reflections on your fathers service in vietnam, while admirable, is distorted by your attitude towards serving!! yOu have tarnished your father's great service and have furthermore took away from our generation's service members!! just shut the hell up!! You friggin wimp!!

Iread with pity, maybe someday there will be peace in the world and there will be nothing like first vclass or second class citizen, everyone will be world citizen and we 'ii leave happily.

Let us all remember what we're fighting against: www.TerrorCinema.org. God bless our troops.

IF you still think this war is about protecting the homeland...I have some land in the desert to sell ya.!!!

rest in peace to all my dead soldiers i know that your family will miss u but u is and a better place then being on earth so for all the people who have lost family dont cry celeabrate for all the good times you had with that peson R.I.P. DEAD SOLDIERS

Yes, Brian how many tours did you complete. No one is taking this war seriously because the draft isn't opened. Wait till they open the draft, everyone will think different cause theirs or you have to go.

My brother just got back form Iraq and told me all the horrifying things that go on their..why he's still their i dont know. i wish they would just come back.

Im a former Marine also, many glorious thoughts of dying on the battlefield. My opinion changed crossing that DMZ, my opinion changed with shared perspective and many lonely nights of personal insight. You should all read Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. Outlawed in many schools due to it being "anti-war" but in reality it spoke of just which this article did. When it comes down to it, what was my purpose, was I lied to, did I really believe that with which I was told, and is it worth my life. Fantastic book. and if you all have any questions email me. onemansjourney@gmail.com

your boys death wont be in vain me and the rest of the miliyary will make sure their cause isnt lost

my comment is take care cuz soldiers are important to us

martin hes my hero hes my friend Steven Kondors Cousin i never really met him but he'll always be my hero for all who dont kno a piece of a bomb shell flew and got him in his skull hes the hero of our whole school

Thank you Editors et al for the Photo Essay of our fallen soldiers. These photos should be on the front page of every American newspaper but of course that would be REAL and politically risky journalism. Where have all the leaders gone?

Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11!

We all have a right to our opinions in our democracy, and to be heard without insulting one another. So here is mine, and I hope it will be cooly listened to and respected, even if it differs from the opinions of others. I have not been in a war, but I remember Korea and Viet Nam and members of my family, who were in those wars. There is a difference between the war and the soldier. The soldiers are heroes for sacrificing their own lives for what they believe in. But there is also a difference between Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. The terrorists in Afghanistan did. Since we attacked Iraq, the subsequent insurgency has made it difficult to understand that we never should have asked the troops to go to Iraq in the first place. Telling us that Iraq had WMD, when it did not, and confusing two completely different countries, Iraq and Afghanistan, stirred up a hornet's nest, which we are going to have a difficult time extricating ouselves from. Our troops are to be commended; asking them to go to Iraq should not be. The best way to support our troops is to send them to Afghanistan to get the real terrorists, or to bring them home alive and well, and give them what they need, when they return. Americans have rightly decided not to punish the troops for being sent to war, as happened to many of those who were sent to Viet Nam, but that does not mean that all wars are good if America starts them, and that does not mean that if the war is wrong, the troops are wrong. I do not understand why those in government, who remembered our ill advised war in Viet Nam allowed this to happen again. It is deja vu all over again to many of us old enough to remember. Thank you to the troops and those in Afghanistan too, and I hope these wars end soon and you will be able to come home.

The mother's and father's pain is so very real here. Every soldier who dies is someone else's baby.

WOW!!! talk about eye opening..ALL SOLDIERS ARE HEROES!!! BRING THEM HOME!! THIS IS THE ONLY thing were doing to them!! and their Families

i think this war, is a waist of everyones time.
we shouldnt of even got into it at all.
were killing people more iraq citizens then enemys.

it is very hard for people to accept the idea that we have a professional military. it is a career path for many and it entails risks - as do many jobs in life. It seems harder to accept the idea that once you have a professional military (contractors and active duty) they may be used by an administration to address identified problems. whether the administration makes wise or unwise decisions is reflective of the administration not the members of the profession of arms. Although I understand that some people feel personal need to attack those who criticize the war, I do not understand those who feel compelled to attack citizens who are skeptical of an administration that has lied about so many things