A letter from Iraq

I find myself frustrated at how desensitized I’ve become towards the war in Iraq. The news is saturated with depressing stories day after day. Sometimes, I hear how many people have died in an explosion and think “That’s not too bad.”, and am sad at how these people have become numbers, as impersonal as the stock prices scrolling along the bottom of CNN.
I’m writing this post after reading this letter from Time.com. It’s a good thing to personalize the war every once in a while, because it’s way too easy to just tune out the noise all together.