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5MYRS · May 21, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSxuvNGSrmc

Buster · May 24, 2012

Happy Birthday Larry Blackmon;

James48843 · May 25, 2012

I'm sitting in the American Legion Post 141 bar in Howell, Michigan, drinking a Budwiser right now,
in honor of PFC Wilson A. Algrim. Algrim is from Howell, Michigan, and was killed December 23, 2006,
in Salman Pak, Iraq. Here is to you, my brother.

You are in Arlington now, and I'm still alive, here, drinking a beer.

Wilson Andrew Algrim, Specialist, United States Army

I miss you dude.

I deal with it every single day. God I hate that.

The Army is a wonderful place, until you lose people you know, or people around you that you trained to try and stay alive, and they don't make it. Could I have done something different? Could I have taught them something else that made them more aware of their surroundings? Could I have given them something that would have changed things? I'll never know.

Being a PFC was the best time I ever had in the U.S. Army. You got to meet people, travel, and fire automatic weapons. Cool.

Being an NCO was hard. Now you have responsibilities for your team.

Being an Officer was even harder, because now I had to tell them to go-do this, or go- do that, and could not protect them myself. My job then was to get them to do extraordinary things, and get them to do it because they want to do it, even when it's not safe- it has to get done. So you lead, and you tell them it's going to be o.k. When you know in your heart that it's not.

I love the Army.

I hate the Army.

I need another beer.

I cry when i think of every young soldier who is no longer here.
Every single death tears me apart.

I am on the DoD death announcement mailing list now. Everytime a soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine dies, it fills up my mailbox.

The Secretary of the Army regrets to announce.....

I read every single one.

And ask myself- was that one of the ones I taught?

or one of the soldiers I commanded?

Was it somebody that I could have taught them something else, and would they still be alive? ??

God I hate war with a passion.

I love the Army.

And I hate the Army.

and I love every single one of them.

My brothers, and sisters.

Yes, I need another beer.