Freaking Terrorists!

I know that everyone is thinking that...so I don't feel bad for titling my blog this way! As my friend Dan says, if you don't want jumper cables on your jumblies then stop blowing up civilians! Ok, so that had to do with the conversation we had about waterboarding and other torture means. This was in response to an article about whether we had received information on bin Laden's whereabouts through torture, but really the same applies. If you don't want to be called a freaking terrorist stop bombing people! But I digress.

The real point of this blog is to express my concern about what is happening to our ladies and gents in uniform in Iraq--and probably Afghanistan, too, actually, but I don't know for sure. Due to the adoption of my Soldiers I know much much more about what is going on over in Iraq than I previously did. And for reasons of OPSEC I will not post names or locations.

I was always hearing from my SSG in the SF that they were getting hit by IDF--indirect fire for those of you not in the military lingo know. That included me until I adopted my Soldiers. Anyway, he would say that he would be sleeping and bam--they would get mortars dropped on them. He would be so casual about telling me this too--just drop it into conversation. I was appalled! I mean, I know that they aren't vacationing over there but I didn't think that while they were on Base there would be any issues--not now that it is supposed to be better in Iraq. I knew that once he left on missions there was danger but not while he was back at the FOB--Forward Operating Base.

My SPC told me that they have been getting mortared a lot lately. He is at a different location than my SSG in the SF but it apparently happens everywhere. Anyway, what really bothered me this time was hearing that during a Toto concert--yes, that band that sings that Africa song!--they were hit and they had to pull the show early. It is bad enough that they have to randomly bomb our troops but to do it during Toto! Come on!

But seriously. It makes me angry and it makes me sad and it really makes me worry for my Soldiers--and yes, all our troops, but when you personally know someone it makes it harder. And the bad thing is that they are just randomly sending mortars over in the hopes of hitting something critical and injuring or killing our Soldiers. And so I say, freaking terrorists! Get another hobby!