No offence chaps, just an honest observation:
This stuff comes out on the news SO often, that like it or not, people are becoming distanced from it. Anyone in combat ops in Iraq has a good chance of being injured, maimed or killed. People only have a finite cup of sympathy - they keep some for when the cat gets run over. I'm not being nasty, just stating my observations I've done over 22 years in military uniform!