This won't be PC, but...

[Hooper]

It is an excellent piece of film, and it gets more powerful everytime I see it. I do get it believe me. I understand the implications on a family when their sons, and now daughters, get KIA.

However, I would be willing to bet a year's pay that at least some of the 500+ other soldiers who have been killed in combat also have siblings serving in country. And they continue to serve there proudly.

But, since this death involved three sisters who look like they could have walked out of any University in America, it becomes a great story for the media. Please don't get me wrong, I am very saddened when I see that we lose another soldier in such a god forsaken place as Iraq. Being a soldier for one's country is one of the most noble things a person can do, IMHO.

I was in the infantry Mako, and if it were my brother killed it would have been completely devastating to me. But it would have been wrong to not return to my unit.

BTW, have you seen the mini series "Band of Brothers" about the 506th Airborne Infantry in WWII?

One soldier finds his brother was killed a day before jumping into France with the 506th. Seems to me we were a vastly different country at one time...