Story archives - tag: "war"

shorty

You made your sister an only child after the "Half of My Heart is in Iraq" sticker on your truck became untrue.

tags: war suicide loss iraq death widow [add]

2008-07-30 14:33:50 / Rating: 90.5 /

RedfraggleBlue

Tomorrow I'll celebrate my mother's anniversary while my long lost uncle, her brother, gets deployed to Afghanistan.

tags: relatives war heartache siblings [add]

2008-05-05 10:12:38 / Rating: 97.25 /

Beth

Instead of him they sent back a folded flag, and when I was alone I tore it to pieces.

tags: war death [add]

2008-02-13 13:08:48 / Rating: 1224.5 /

Jeremy

When they handed me a medal for saving a man in Afghanistan, all I could think about was how I wasn't able to save the other two.

tags: war sadness death [add]

2006-10-11 11:14:53 / Rating: 336.5 /

Lewis from North Carolina, USA

President Bush killed my father, a soldier whose burned remains are now a part of the Iraqi desert landscape, and I, longing to fit in by supporting something I did not understand, was stupid enough to vote for him the previous year.

tags: politics death regret fatherhood anger Bush President Bush Iraq terrorism 9/11 war [add]

2006-09-11 23:06:50 / Rating: 872.25 /