You sound like an *****"He knew what he was in for when he joined up. He's a casualty of war."Yea, he is, and I feel bad he had to die, I feel bad whenever anyone dies from war"Would it make you feel better if I posted some useless and pointless platitudes about how brave he was? Don't we get enough of that from our political leaders? Tell Sgt. Schmid's family how brave he was. It might make a small modicum of difference, but in the end, his family STILL has to wake up tomorrow, and try to ***** themselves into thinking that he lost his life for some higher cause."Useless and pointless? I think not, how many people did he save from going up to bombs and disarming them, SO THEY DON'T EXPLODE AND KILL PEOPLE, that's pretty ***** brave, he has more balls than me. We get that from our political leaders because it's true, he was brave, and it's a sign of respect and thanks for doing something for our country. It means a lot to show people that you care for them and their loss, it helps the healing process, so its a more than "a small modicum of difference" Where does it say that they believe in a higher cause, they could be atheists. Also what's the matter with believing what you want to believe?"Meanwhile, George Bush... and Barack Obama, and any of the other LEGIONS of people who benefit from this war, lose NOTHING from the loss of such a brave and noble man as Sgt. Schmid.."He was from the UK, of course they wouldn't lose anything, they didn't know him, they are in no way related to him aside from the fact that they were both once/are a leader of a country who is also in a war in the same country. Oh, now you call him brave, as a compliment yet before you shove it aside as nothing...stay classy."How quick are you, to get angry and upset at the person who MADE that IED, who was just trying to defend his COUNTRY, but will readily and willingly give your gutless leaders a free pass on the responsibility of this failed war?"The person who made the IED could have been a terrorist, who wasn't defending their country when he/she attacked another country unprovoked. And who said I'm willing to give a free pass on this failed war, I don't want troops their as much as you(?) do, but I do realize that it does take time to pull thousands of troops out of a country. (even though it's not being done)"As the very first post in this forum states: "Thank you for your service, Staff Sergeant Olaf Sean George Schmid."Now, let's line another one up for slaughter.You don't like that?Why?Because I'm SAYING IT?"No not because you're saying it, but because it's wrong. Not every person who serves in the military dies in service. Most come home to live another life, it may not be the greatest life, but they don't get "slaughtered""Then what should your response be for the people who are DOING IT?"My response it to get out of these wars, as I said before.Please try not to be so ignorant :(