Loss of your brother is a real tragedy, Cap ... I'm very sorry right along with your entire family. Somehow, the enemy thinks that killing our soldiers will make us "give up the fight." They just cannot understand that their atrocities feed our anger and our rage. When they try to hurt our troops, we become even more ferocious. Maybe it's the same with them, but it only makes things worse for the enemy when they attack.

And the rage grows when our commanders make bad decisions, when they want objectives taken and then give them away, when they want territory covered only to pull back, when they send troops on senseless missions.

Argue as we may, the ground commanders don't have much say in where front line troops go or how long they stay.

There should be a monument to your family - but as one guy told me one time, there is already a monument for your family - it's called freedom.