There's a lump in my throat, and my heart is tight in my chest. This was a succinctly, beautiful, and painful piece. The right words, the right feeling, the right emotion, and all that said perfectly with simplicity. I love it.

I see that it's been a couple of years since you've last posted anything on this site, but regardless of whether or not you see this -

I do hope you're still writing and writing somewhere. I hope you're still threading faces and a bit of real life & humanity into conflicts, old and new, that are so easily forgotten.

Hey there, I liked this short piece, it was really sad. You put a human spin on Iraq, something a lot of us forget.