2,000 Is Not Just A Number

CNN gives us these heartbreaking stories about Sgt. James Kinlow, Sgt. David Jones and Specialist Matthew Gibbs, three Georgians who died in separate instances over a 10 day span this summer.


As to Kinlow, CNN rreports:

"[B]etween Christmas and New Year's, he tore off two sheets of notebook paper and wrote out his life in summary, with a blank for the newspapers to fill in later, beginning with the end.

"Mr. James O. Kinlow, 35, of Holt St. died -------- in Iraq."

Nearly seven months later, the sentence was completed.

He died on July 24. He did not die alone; three of his comrades died as well. All together, 18 soldiers in the Georgia-based 48th Infantry Brigade have fallen since their arrival in Iraq in June, sad examples of the bloody price paid by U.S. citizen-soldiers in this war."