In your defense your response was innocent enough when reading the posts one at a time. You had to read both posts in order to realize the author of 56342 had also lost a son in the war. #56342 Surge to Nowhere #56344 Honoring Andrew Bacevich, father and son What I don't understand is the father was well versed in the war etc. My question is how he could have allowed his son to go. It's a tragic waste. After all these years I don't understand why we are still there.