Meet Ty and Renee Ziegel. As a Marine reserve sergeant serving his second tour in Iraq, Ty was badly wounded by a suicide bomber in December 2004. He lost his left arm below the elbow, all but two fingers on his right hand, the sight in one eye, and a piece of his brain. His fiancee Renee was there with him through the whole recovery process, and they got married in October. You can see more photos here, read more about the couple in the Sunday Times of London or in this People magazine article (available through the website of the Fisher House Foundation, an organization that helps wounded troops and their families.) It's great that they've managed to keep their lives together and I hope they can continue.

But this is what he looks like now. It's not going to get any better. And he's one of the lucky ones.

War is evil. Sometimes it might be the lesser evil, but anything that does this to people is never a good thing. We all owe the troops and their families for putting them through this. Very few of us can honestly say we did enough to oppose this useless war; I know I can't. But you can do something to help the people that went and fought it, and to help their families. Please donate to Fisher House if you have anything to spare.

----Ron

[quote of the moment| "We're all in this together!"]
[mood of the moment | angry]
[music of the moment |Cowboy Junkies - You're Missing]