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Photos from Afghanistan

Bjoern

Bjoern

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All are heart breaking and powerful. The little girl with her mother reaching for her father in the casket is enough to make you cry...Mike
 
These are some great photos. I've been to a few of the locations mentioned. Afghanistan is a very interesting place, the people are as complex as the terrain. You can tell approximately where a photo was taken by looking at the terrain.

The Army and Marine troops in particular are my heros for what they put up with and the courage to take on the task at hand.
 
Great photos....

I always get a bittersweet feeling when looking through these. Thanks for sharing
 
Thank you for sharing those. I don't find them offensive at all though I do appreciate the warning. The only war/patriotic threads I find offensive are the ones like the one we had a while back about the teacher who removed the chairs while the military men arrived just to be called heroes. I don't think that even really happened.
 
lifejogger said:
I hate war.
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I think that all sane, mentally stable people alive hate war...only those who are unbalanced, fanatical either politically or religiously, or deranged beyond all reason like war. As much as I hate war, I stand behind our troops 100%, have nothing but the utmost respect for them and the fact that they are on the front lines, placing themselves in harms way.

I have a nephew who is the US Army...pulled a 16 month rotation in Irag, is back in the states now, completed Air Assault training in October (he looks so proud with those black helo wings on his chest....and has every right to be proud). He has 8 months or so left on his enlistment...and he is facing possible deployment to Afghanistan. He is attached to one of the Army's mountain divisions and that division is quickly rising to the top of the deployment roster. He may end up seeing his enlistment extended, whether he wants it extended or not. He may soon find himself in the hottest parts of a very difficult battle field. We hope that it doesn't happen, but we all know that our beloved soldier may well be under enemy fire in a short time. That is the life of a soldier, a life that each member of our Armed Forces signed up to life.

During his Irag deployment, the entire family was praying like crazy that he be safe and come home to us alive and well....and if he is deployed to Afghanistan, the same prayers will be said by every member of this family again.

I challenge each member who reads this post to say that prayer for an unknown soldier, a soldier whose name we do not know, whose face we have never seen. Each and every man and woman, each individual soldier, are our children....children born and raised in our nation, in our states, in our towns....they may not be our children by blood, but they are willing to shed their blood for us all the same. Left a soldier in prayer...God knows the desires of your heart and he will give each unnamed soldier a name when he receives your prayer.

Tim
 
My son in law is a Navy Corpsman and has already got his orders to Afghanistan. He's to be there the middle of next month. We're already praying for his safe return.
 
The one with the little girl reaching for her Daddy lying in his coffin brought a tear to my eye. Such a waste.
 
Pic 4
They still got WW2 weapons, like that Mosin Nagant with scope. Which looks in better shape than the AK-47 behind it.
 
Sad and heartbreaking...I see in the eyes of some of those these afghans a deep sadness and weariness...
 
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