next year

we have to add ten more to our remembrances (if only it was going to be ten more, BUT, it isn't going to be, is it?)

kidnappings, deaths, torturing. and we think this is ok? do we think we have a chance to mend what we cut open? the longer we stay, the more pain we cause. both to families HERE and to families THERE

bring our men and women home NOW


10 American Soldiers Killed in Iraq
Memorial Day Casualties Make May Deadliest Month for U.S. in 21/2 Years


By John Ward Anderson Washington Post Foreign Service

BAGHDAD, May 29 -- The U.S. military announced Tuesday that 10 American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Memorial Day, making May the deadliest month for U.S. troops in 2 1/2 years, as insurgents continued attacks on government and civilian targets.
Gunmen dressed in police uniforms staged a well-coordinated kidnapping at Iraq's Finance Ministry and abducted five Britons. Two vehicle bombings in Baghdad killed at least 44 people and injured 74. And the bodies of 32 men -- all shot and tortured, some handcuffed and blindfolded -- were found in two locations north and south of the capital on Tuesday, a senior Iraqi security official said............