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Yesterday I was in my local grocery store talking to one of the women that works there. she is in her 70's and has worked at this place for over 10 years. Everyone in town knows her. As we were talking a young guy came up to her and she smiled. She introduced me to him. He was stopping in to say goodbye to her. He is shipping out to Afghanistan in a couple of days so he was scrambling to get things done. He tells us he is rushing to get some stuff into storage in his parents garage and then tomorrow he is going to marry his girlfriend. They are just going to courthouse and making it legal that way if anything happens to him she is taken care of to some degree.
The guy is 20 years old and he is making plans for possibly dying in the next year. . . Saddened the hell out of me.
We need to leave Afghanistan. We can't win there. Nobody has won there. We are just wasting lives, money and time.
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