A woman in an adjoining office to ours learned this past weekend that a nephew she is very close to was killed in combat. It’s been a somber day here, one woman who has a son in Iraq was moved to tears and worrying.<\/p>\n
I don’t know the woman who lost her nephew, but a couple co-workers were talking about it and said that he had been stationed in Africa.<\/p>\n
“Why are we in Africa, anyway?”
\n“I don’t know.”
\n“It’s all so sad.”<\/p>\n
And that’s when I turned around and said:<\/p>\n
“You know what’s really sad? That he died, and we don’t even know why he was there.”<\/p>\n
Apparently my comment struck home, and when one of the co-workers called to express her condolences she asked why he had been stationed there.<\/p>\n
The answer? “Unspecified Terrorist Threat.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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