21 and expecting

A half a bottle of gin and two liters of Diet Dr. Pepper later, I find that we're watching stories of people that signed up for the military experience, are sent to Iraq, and come back completely fucked up.

This hits home for me because I have a friend, my age, who is due to have a baby in less than a month and who's husband has served at least twice oversea's.  It pains me to think that my friend could be left widowed and with a newborn baby at the age of 21.

I was her maid of honor at her wedding when we were 18.  I've known her since the second grade.  I can't stand the thought of her husband of three and half years being killed or maimed with a baby on the way.

It makes me want to punch a whole lot of idiotic politicians.