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...there is more to Team Cavanagh, as Tom’s older brothers Joe and Paul both lettered as Holy Cross icemen and graduated in 1999 and 2000, respectively. More brothers may also be on the way, as Dave is a junior at Tom’s alma mater Toll Gate High School, and Jimmy, at 13 years of age, plays in the pee wee league...
...evident concern is to avoid generating troubling visuals - and the reasons are obvious: If the "Black Hawk Down" incident in Mogadishu is the defining military trauma of the past decade, it's worth noting that by the measure of combat fatalities in postwar Iraq has matched the Mogadishu death toll more than six times over. But it hasn't produced anything like that day's ugly visuals of American bodies being dragged through the streets by celebrating Somalis. There have, of course, been plenty of reports by Western print journalists of Iraqis cheering at the scene of ambushes...
It’s telling that the first thing that comes to mind is not: “Because 345 soldiers have been killed, and the death toll is mounting...,” “Because hundreds more have sustained serious injuries...,” “Because our troops are so stressed that there have been abnormally high rates of suicide in the military...,” or “Because men and women in uniform have been kept away from their friends and family for months...
Because 345 soldiers have been killed, and the death toll is mounting. Because hundreds more have sustained serious injuries. Because our troops are so stressed that there have been abnormally high rates of suicide in the army. Because men and women in uniform have been kept away from their friends and family for months on end. The fact that this line of opposition to the war is so rarely cited bothers me, because it shows a lack of concern for our brave men and women in the armed forces. It suggests that the antiwar movement is motivated more by grandiose...
...wait and suffer more casualties later on? At least the world is rid of a despot. And who knows how many innocent Iraqi lives have been saved? I hold no brief for Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, but I support them in this. The daily death toll of allied troops is heartbreaking, but it will be worth it in the end. I am the father of a British soldier who served in Northern Ireland during the worst of the "troubles," so I know how soldiers' families feel. Mick Timson Caistor, England...