Sad things

My mom's best friend, from whom I receive my middle name of Elizabeth, has a son who is a Marine stationed in Iraq. On New Years Day he was shot and has since had his arm amputated. He gets to return home to his wife and 4 year-old son alive though, and as he is a mechanical engineer he is apparently already designing his own prosthesis. His pop was a Marine in Vietnam, his Grandfather in the CIA... It was interesting though, as I was reading his company's web log about the incident, I learned that Joe Sacco happened to be the journalist imbedded with them. Apparently his experience will be in Guardian sometime forthcoming.