In an attempt to be more organized, I was cleaning off my desk. Those aforementioned stacks of paper were piling up and getting unruly.
I have a pile of folders which say K.I.A. For those of you non-military folks, it stands for 'Killed In Action'. As part of my official duties, I get the casualty reports from the Department of Defense about all the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines from my district who have been killed in Iraq. It is a sobering reality, as I then have to alert my boss and take care of some other morose and sullen details. The local paper generally finds out the information of the next-of-kin before I do. It is a mess. Not because the paper finds out before I do, but because there are quite a few folders in my stack.
It seems so pithy and disturbing to have a folder on my desk that represents a life. War sucks.
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