We are at war

This is not for the squeamish.

I received an email with a video attachment moments ago. The video is of an A-10 warplane firing on a group of four soldiers.

Mind you, I'm not one to be turned off by a violent movie or novel. But those are images of fiction. This turned my stomach. Have we become so callous to what our American soldiers face every day that we can watch a trigger video and feel giddy about killing our "enemy"? That we have put American men and women into a position where they have to kill? That we, as a whole, only lament the fact that our armed services have to spend more time in Iraq? Afghanistan? Have we forgotten what we have sent them there to do? How that will affect them for the rest of their lives? That they, too, have guns aimed at their heads every day?

Is this what has happened to us? We view a video of four men being killed as entertainment for the masses? We can joke about it and post incredibly inhumane comments that are completely anonymous? This is sick.

I become, more and more, my mother's son with every passing day.