Heart-rending news

I am so in agreement with you GA I was also waiting for my bot to be deployed there at that time he had already done two tours of Irag at that time and spent his 21st birthday there his brother also served at different times both of these boys lost friends and I am eternally grateful that they came home,how I would hate for them to have to return, everything they & their friends have gone through would seem such a waste.

Oh ga I am so terribly sad for you, for your daughter and her child, for your SiL's family and friends. What a complete and utter pointless waste of all those young lives. Nothing was achieved. And nothing, it seems, has been learned either. I so agree with you about not sending any more troops out there. We cannot keep sacrificing our young men and destroying their families.

There are never any winners in a war, only the remains of sadness at lives lost in the hope of a better future. Like everyone else here ga my thoughts are with you and your family, and indeed the families of all those who are without their loved ones.

I understand your frustration and heared the news with a sense of deepest dread. Condolences to you, your daughter his family who must bear this terrible loss.

Madness indeed ga - how sad (and rightly angry) you must be feeling - and your DD. I do not understand how they can do this without parliamentary sanction.

So sad for you GA your daughter and her child and also the family of your SIL tragic waste of young lives .Agree with you not send any more troops in .

I couldn't agree with you more, GA. I thought of you when I heard the news.

This is overwhelmingly sad and such a waste.

But I agree with you GA about not sending more troops in.

This must be so awful for you and for your DD, GA. A couple of people who had lost loved ones in Afghanistan were interviewed on Jeremy Vine at lunch time giving their point of view. So sad.

(((Hugs)))

What a waste of your poor son-in-law's life, granny activist. You and your daughter must feel the double sadness of the time of year without him, and the fact that the Taliban are back in the region.
And how many of our young men and women are our government prepared to sacrifice for a war that we seemingly cannot win?
Hugs and

Hugs x

So sorry for your heartbreaking news Grannyactivist.
I agree with you 100% about the latest intervention in Afghanistan - a terrible waste of human life and limb.