Whether it's actual, or fake, it gives us all a pause to reflect, at this time of the year and the approaching holidays, on the sacrifices being made on our behalf by men, like this one, who are alone, cold and at the mercy of the elements. It IS winter in Afghanistan, and it IS the third day of the assault.
I hope, whether true or made-up, it reminds us all that our sons and daughters, wives and husbands, aunts and uncles and friends in the military aren't all having turkey with all the trimmings at the Green Zone chow hall, waving to family and friends back home. Some are freezing their buns off in the mountains of a very inhospitable land.