Helicopter down in Baghdad; 5 killed

AP via Yahoo ^ | 1/23/07 | KIM GAMEL

[nw_arizona_granny]

Hug him for me and say thanks to him.

Yes, on the prayers, those do not stop.

Your prayers are very welcome too.

They some are too mean to give up, that is me.

Stay safe and proud to be the Mom of a Warrior.

[EternalVigilance]

My son is in training right now too. He's Guard, though, and unlikely to deploy anytime soon. I'm danged proud of him, though. Fastest runner in his company, and made sharpshooter. :-)

God bless your son, and you and yours. Thanks for your sacrifices.

[TexKat]

Thank your son for his service to this country and to the American people EV. May God bless all who serve, thir families and love ones.

``We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.''

George Orwell

U.S. soldiers of the HHB Field Artillery, Quick Reaction Force, during a night patrol in Baghdad, January 24, 2007. (Erik de Castro/Reuters)

[middie]

Yesterday herr Limbaugh was justifying an absurd argument that being in Iraq was safer than being in the USA. There's an old rubric that trial lawyers use to rationalize a similarly outrageous argument when one knows that it's incredibly stupid; ''you've got to argue something...'' Well, our demagogue-in-chief has invoked that doctrine.

It is a real joy to witness his precipitious fall from even the minor credibility he once had. Of course, having never heard the whiz of an incoming small arms round or the ''wump'' of a mortar or felt a pressure wave and heat of a explosion he is supremely comfortable in minimizing the combat he's never known.