In the beginning and throughout these wars of choice the little 'kombat keyboarders' were inflamed that the news reports weren't about all the good done by those sent, not them, into both theaters. There's many reasons any good can get buried, first little comes from occupying others and destroying them and their country, second any good deed is quickly erased and the step forward loses to many steps backward when the innocent are killed and maimed, especially the children and women. My response has been turn off the FOX, unless a local affiliate, they don't report much at all on the wars they supported, cheer leading all the way, and have gone into long and bad. That was these extreme right tools problem, not recognizing what the FOX is! The other media outlets have been doing mostly stellar, but not as we had from 'Nam, reports on the realities of Wars of Choice, but they too sometimes cheered on hell on earth!
June 23, 2011 - BAGRAM AIRFIELD - The day after the president's announcement, some of the wounded troops volunteered to talk with CBS News correspondent Mandy Clark about how they see the war today. Twenty-year-old Lance Corporal Stephen Aythens is a Marine combat engineer from Alabama. Last week, he stepped on a land mine and lost his legs.
"I was walking and I hear 'boom!' I can't see, I can't hear, it's ringing in my ears and I feel like I'm flying and I hit the ground," he tells Clark.
Aythens told us he doubts people back home understand the reality of war.
"Video games today, 'Call of Duty' and everything, it makes it look so easy just to run around and kill everyone," Aythens said. "But this war, you don't know the difference between an enemy and a friend. They look like the civilians, the civilians look like them. Sometimes they are the enemy and you don't know it."
The enemy is elusive and, right now, the combat is growing more intense. A bomb went off near 20-year-old Private James Sitter of North Carolina and destroyed his hearing in one ear. He told us half his platoon has been injured.
"We're getting our replacements in, but there's no way you can fill up half a company, half a platoon. You gotta start learning to work with less," he said.
With his platoon short-handed, he told us he'd rather go back than go home.
"It's like, once you're put in a platoon, it's like a family. You want to go back," he said. Read More
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