I am a father of two military officer sons, one of whom was in Iraq. He was lucky. He was a commander of an intelligence unit so not in one of the more dangerous missions, but he had to dress for battle anyway any time he went off base, which was often, and for extended periods, on intel missions.
Tho he was in less danger relative to so many others, knowing my son "went to war" was something to get my head around. He was a Marine Capt, now with the US State Dept Diplomatic Security.
I offer this as background to the real subject of my diary, the movie "Taking Chance". My God!!! I cried watching the trailer!! I can't imagine how I'll get thru the whole movie. Now I see there is renewed talk of once again permitting news photo coverage of returning coffins, to which I say a resounding YES. We need to see what we so willingly didn't want to see. We need to see what our acquiescence wrought.....while we went shopping. We need to see the cost of attempts to be the world's morality enforcers.
My son returned safely. God bless all who return with their spirits debilitated, their families destroyed, their dreams lost, their bodies maimed or their lives ended.
"Taking Chance" will wound us.