Scared Soldiers

As you've likely heard, the U.S. death count alone in Afghanistan and Iraq has been extremely high in the past week (and the local deaths astronomical). Baghdad devolves each and every day.

This is a sad lead-in to this story in Salon (worth looking at the free ad to read in its entirety) about soldiers from that unit who allegedly mutinied. Tore my heart out. I can't even begin to imagine what it was like from the parents who were getting calls from their kids about this suicide mission.