[Hal Copple]

i happened to be near a TV when this all happend two years ago. I have never been so angry in my life. I still am.

A few days later i happened to pick up a Time magazine, and opened it to a page with a picture of a tiny person hurtling down to death. I looked closely, and i could tell it was a woman, because her dress was blown up over her head.

I put the magazine down, and have not looked at another picture or TV show about that day since. I spent 30 years and two wars in the Army. If I were a unit commander now, i would have copied that picture, and given a print to every soldier in my command, to carry in their wallet.

And told them when they wondered why they were sent so far away and put in harm's way, they were to pull the picture out, look at the tiny dying woman, and tell themselves, "this is why my country has sent me here for this duty." This woman represents my wife, my daughter, my mother.

And then they were to put the picture away, check their weapon's magazine, and wipe the dust from the sights.