US Military 2013 Losses in the War in Afghanistan

Red October1984 · 01-08-14, 03:24 AM

On the first day of snow here, (as in, two days ago) I went along to a Orthodontist appointment of my brother's. I sat in the waiting room and flipped through this month's People Magazine. (To be fair, Jennifer Lawrence was on the cover so there's nothing wrong with that)

At the end, they had several pages where they honored all of the US Servicepeople killed in Afganistan all year.

There was 123 of them.

I got to thinking. If we ever got into a REAL war...one where we'd lose that many or more in one battle....

How would society react to something like that? Everybody would lose their minds!

I'm not saying that the number should be greater. It would be best if we had left A-stan years ago after Bin Laden and saved, let's say, 150 per year since then. That's 450 people counting this year. IMHO, there is no way you can just change what has been done for thousands of years. Why are we wasting resources and lives trying anymore?

Anyway, I just thought it was interesting that the number was so low considering how big of a deal it is when a soldier dies. You would think it would be a higher number. Just the media at work I guess. I'm glad that there are people out there that care though. It makes me so mad whenever I see somebody dissing the troops and using choice words/phrases to curse them. We've all seen those kinds of posts...

If you won't stand behind them, feel free to stand in front of them.

I thought it was a nice little memorial. Had all of the names and ages of the people and had pictures of all the servicewomen lost. It's sad that a lot of them had to die so young....but I think it's even worse when you see the name of somebody over 35....somebody with a family at home.*

To those that paid the price this last year, a salute.

*not to say the younger ones didn't.

01-08-14, 03:24 AM	#1
Red October1984 Airplane Nerd Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Texas Posts: 6,243 Downloads: 115 Uploads: 0	US Military 2013 Losses in the War in Afghanistan On the first day of snow here, (as in, two days ago) I went along to a Orthodontist appointment of my brother's. I sat in the waiting room and flipped through this month's People Magazine. (To be fair, Jennifer Lawrence was on the cover so there's nothing wrong with that) At the end, they had several pages where they honored all of the US Servicepeople killed in Afganistan all year. There was 123 of them. I got to thinking. If we ever got into a REAL war...one where we'd lose that many or more in one battle.... How would society react to something like that? Everybody would lose their minds! I'm not saying that the number should be greater. It would be best if we had left A-stan years ago after Bin Laden and saved, let's say, 150 per year since then. That's 450 people counting this year. IMHO, there is no way you can just change what has been done for thousands of years. Why are we wasting resources and lives trying anymore? Anyway, I just thought it was interesting that the number was so low considering how big of a deal it is when a soldier dies. You would think it would be a higher number. Just the media at work I guess. I'm glad that there are people out there that care though. It makes me so mad whenever I see somebody dissing the troops and using choice words/phrases to curse them. We've all seen those kinds of posts... If you won't stand behind them, feel free to stand in front of them. I thought it was a nice little memorial. Had all of the names and ages of the people and had pictures of all the servicewomen lost. It's sad that a lot of them had to die so young....but I think it's even worse when you see the name of somebody over 35....somebody with a family at home.* To those that paid the price this last year, a salute. *not to say the younger ones didn't. __________________