When I read about the casualities, I was very sad. I saw an article in the L.A. Times about how Gen. McChrystal's strategy was meant to avoid casualities like that. I also saw on the cover of Time magazine, newest October issue at my work today, a picture of a wounded US soldier on a stretcher. Then there was a series of pictures showing the lives of US troops in Afghanistan. You folks in the military are very brave to go through such grueling living situations like having a lack of water, etc...