I’ve always made it a point to avoid these types of videos, but then I thought of all the mothers who lay awake at night wondering if their sons will come home, the women who wait by the phone to hear their husbands or boyfriends on the other end of the line, my family waiting to get that phone call that my brother…

I wish this surprised me. I feel heartbroken and sick and angry, but I just wish I could feel shocked, too. I should feel shocked and I’m not, at all. Ugh.