My Semi-Adopted son called from Iraq on Saturday [View All]

My wife and I agreed that he sounded very troubled. He asked me if I had heard anything of our governor attending the funeral of one of his fallen friends and I said I'd check it out. He recently re-established emailing my 15 y.o. daughter recently after a couple of months of not hearing from him. He doesn't like it over there and wants to come home to his wife and baby in Olympia. I emailed him from the office yesterday after searching Ahnold's web site for press recent releases and sent them to him for a couple of soldiers. He responded that it wasn't them and it happened in late September. I located the release as well as a nice write-up in SFGate. It was for a young man from Novato who was killed by an IED. He leaves a wife and baby, just like Brandon has. I sent the info and got a response back that has got the tears flowing. He said it happened right in front of him and he can't get rid of the images in his mind. He had spent the morning bullshitting with the guy and talking about life in NorCal, and then Boom! , he's not there. He's hurting real bad and I wish I could just go over there and drag his skinny ass back home. He was supposed to be getting out in December, but they extended him until July and I hope and pray that he gets to return. I hate this fucking war and I hate the bastards that got us into it. I already sent a pissed off email to my piece of shit congressman Lungren, like that's going to do anything besides getting me sent to Gitmo. All the responses I've gotten in the past are about how this is a good thing and support the troops bullshit. Hey, Danny Boy, where were you when I was spending my hitch in the Navy? Fucking chicken-hawk! I plan on attending his next neighborhood forum and I'm asking him why the hell he supports this catastrophe he help to create. I hope they don't taze me, bro!