7 U.S. Troops Wounded Looking For Comrades

I read that headline and realised something was perverse. A headline reading that [only] 7 troops were [only] wounded is good news.

The U.S. military said Monday that seven American troops have been wounded, three insurgents have been killed and 34 detained during an intensive search for two missing American soldiers.

Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq, said fighter jets, unmanned aerial vehicles and dive teams had been deployed to find the two men. The men went missing Friday during an attack on their checkpoint in the volatile Sunni area south of Baghdad that left one of their comrades dead.

Be thankful for what wasn't, I guess.

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