"I was able to watch a little bit of the news today.

Apparently news of the two soldiers captured and subsequently killed is a big story back home. Not that Soldiers and Marines aren’t killed here almost everyday.

I saw an uncle of one of the soldiers do the unthinkable on television and state that the American government should have paid ransom money to the enemy via funds recovered from the Saddam regime, and that not enough was done to recover them."
Chapter: War