STORM2K

This is breaking now so more information later but what I know is that a big mortar attack tonight near the green zone has left 35 US soldiers wounded but no more details.

Thanks for the information. Hopefully none of the 35 are wounded badly.

The latest is that some of the 35 soldiers were released to their base as no big injuries happened to those but no more information about the rest.

35 GIs Injured in Iraq Mortar Attack
AP

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Thirty-five U.S. soldiers were wounded Wednesday in a mortar attack on a U.S. base west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

Six mortar rounds exploded about 6:45 p.m. at Logistical Base Seitz, the military said in a statement. The wounded soldiers were from the 3rd Corps Support Command.

"The wounded soldiers were given first-aid and have been evacuated from the site for further medical treatment," the statement said.

In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. James Cassella said some of the wounded soldiers returned to duty shortly after the attack, while others were hospitalized. He said he did not have figures on how many troops were lightly injured and how many were seriously wounded.

How sad!! Those cowards need to fight us face to face

Here is some more information about what happened but still there is no word on how many of the 35 US soldiers are in grave condition if there are any that way.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/ ... index.html

Once again, I ask if it will ever end.

On each page of my Vietnam journal from 1970, I posted an "X" in the upper right hand corner when we were attacked by mortars or rockets. Unlike this attack, ours were most frequently on moon-less nights, non moon-lit nights.

For two years after I returned to the states, I would dive under my bed if it thundered at night....

There is no fear like the sound of rockets and mortars waking you from a sound sleep. People trying to hurt you...to kill you.

May they look out for each other as we did...and find friendship and laughter in the middle of those horrific nights. Some of our most twisted, but most needed humor came from the depths of a pitch black bunker at those times. I suspect that happens in Iraq as well.

sunnyday,

We are NOT fighting a specific nation, as in years past...it's a sick, 7th Century sociopolitical ideology with "religious" overtones...guerilla war spread over at least 60 countries by cowards who hide in tiny cells, each waiting for orders to attack anyone...Muslims, Christians, whoever gets in their way.

We HAVE to win this one...it is "World War III", in that the entire fate of civilization as we know it is on the line.

THEY will not stop....neither should we. No matter how long it takes.