2,000 Gone In Afghanistan: Did You Notice The Death Of Sgt. Riley Stephens? -- NBC
When No. 2,000 fell last weekend in Afghanistan, journalists were keeping count. But is the nation keeping up?
Sunday marks the 11-year anniversary of the first American missile strikes against terrorist and Taliban targets inside Afghanistan. The U.S. military death toll has ticked ever slowly upward from the war's launch in October 2001 as a globally watched counterattack to 9/11 through the height of the Iraq War when service members in Afghanistan darkly dubbed their own battleground “Forgot-istan.”
Last Saturday, Sgt. 1st Class Riley G. Stephens, 39, was shot and killed by an Afghan National Army soldier at a highway checkpoint in Wardak Province. The Airborne Special Forces member had three children and a wife. Residents in his tiny hometown, Tolar, Texas, gathered Wednesday night on the local high school football field, burning candles in his honor.
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My Comment: With the exception of those who have family serving in the military .... I have found that most Americans do not care. It is a distant conflict that does not reverberate with most Americans .... and when it does .... it is to feed into a political agenda. Fortunately .... by the end of 2014 most U.S. soldiers will be out of the country .... putting to an end to America's longest war not with a bang .... but with a whimper.
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