Niece's friend home from Iraq.... his best friend killed by

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

sniper while he was here.

This is the same kid whose mess tent got blown up early in the war, killing another buddy... he was not in it, because his mom sent him cereal.

This is one lucky kid, man.

[MrScorpio]

1. He has some stories to tell

I'd love to hear them

I think that we all should hear them

[Bucky]

2. I hate this war but I really admire the troops for what they're going thru

It takes a LOT of courage and training and discipline to keep it together over there. We owe them every ounce of energy toward ending this madness.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. I am going to keep chatting with him via

email over this deployment... he has to go back Tues

I will let everyone know

[Kire]

4. I pray that he stays lucky.

[warrens]

5. There is evidently a group of genius snipers there

They take only one shot, and they are accurate. They break down their guns, but them in a backpack and merge into the crowd. And they are highly lethal. They shoot right into the face or into the back of the neck. And we haven't caught a single one.

[sasquatch]

7. They must be hunters from the desert or something

Remember: Starving men on the Russian Ural mountains made the best snipers, not American cowboys.

[graywarrior]

6. Not so lucky to witness the death of a friend.

Same thing happened to my dad's best friend WWII, right next to him in a foxhole on Corregidor. My dad was a tortured man his entire life.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. NO, he was here in the US on a short leave

that is why he was lucky.