For a few in Congress, war is family concern

[Moloch]

Rep. Joe Wilson (news, bio, voting record) gets regular progress reports on the Iraq (news - web sites) war from generals and Pentagon (news - web sites) officials as a member of the House Armed Services Committee. But since February, the most meaningful battlefield updates have come from his son Alan, an Army National Guard intelligence officer in Iraq.

Often as Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, sat in lengthy House hearings this year, the soldier's e-mails would arrive on his BlackBerry messaging device, which he would pass down the row to committee colleagues. The short missives about daily life in Iraq often gave Wilson and his colleagues more of a real-world view than they received from the top brass.

When Capt. Alan Wilson, 31, arrived home in Columbia on Wednesday for two weeks of R&R before returning to Iraq, he brought a laptop filled with photos. One showed a fiery blast after a truck in his convoy hit a napalm-laced improvised explosive device near Mosul. Miraculously, no one was injured. But "it really brought it close to home when I saw the photos," Wilson says - "particularly the fireball."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&ncid=676&e=9&u=/usatoday/20041207/ts_usatoday/forafewincongresswarisfamilyconcern

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Who'd of thunk war would entail fireballs?

:shrug:

[Child_Of_Isis]

2. Do notice the word..... few. n/t