Fuck this stupid war
A friend of ours is active duty Air Force. He got deployed to Qatar for a tour last spring instead of his usual stateside assignment. He’s there now. The base he’s at was one of the first places Iran hit after our attack. My spouse just texted to tell me she saw his wife and daughter arriving at school after very obviously crying together.
I mean it isn’t the same as the families that lost someone already, and we don’t know what it was about, but this is a buttoned-down military family who believes in this kind of service (in a way that, frankly, I do not) and it’s fucking shit that they’re exploited in this way and pushed to the edge in this way.