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Get out the tissues before watching this.

This is a whopper of a “call in sick” excuse.

Now this makes me sad.

Oliver North “Road Kill”

In keeping with tradition, the American soldier’s next of kin will be notified by his service, his body will be escorted home on an “Angel Flight” and at his funeral, a military honor guard will solemnly present his family with a carefully folded American flag and a Purple Heart Medal on which the profile of George Washington appears. The U.S. civilian contractor, killed by the same “indirect fire” as the U.S. soldier, will be accorded none of these courtesies. She is simply a statistic: the 161st American civilian contractor killed in Iraq since 2003. When I called a friend in Iraq to ask about the circumstances, I was told, “Who cares about the civilian? We’re just road kill.”

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