Sunday, October 28, 2007
A Tale of Two Brothers
The Washington Post reports on the Walters brothersm Brett and Kurtis as they and their buddies in the Indiana National Guard prepare to deploy into Iraq.
As the U.S.-led battle for Iraq's future rumbles toward the five-year mark, the Walters brothers are among the thousands of part-time warriors who will quit their civilian lives and their home towns to spend 10 months in a parallel reality. Four state Guard brigades, among them Indiana's 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, will mobilize in early December, the next wave of deployment to support President Bush's plan for keeping at least 130,000 U.S. troops in Iraq through next year.They are ready and willing to deploy to a war that has no purpose and, if Our Dear Embattled Leader has his way, no end. Whatever you may think of these two Americans and all the other men and women in the military, they deserve far better than to be a part of this Republican sponsored disaster.
More than 3,400 Indiana soldiers are training now for the war, a conflict more complicated, more unpredictable and less popular than at any time since the March 2003 invasion. When the troops -- farmers and factory workers, students and executives, sons and daughters -- ship out, they and the communities they leave behind will be braced for the worst. "This is a tougher mission," said Col. Courtney Carr, commander of the Indiana brigade. "There's a good chance that not all our soldiers will come back."
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