From my good friend Sean Rhiney: 
"Last combat troops leave Iraq. Over 4,000 lives lost. I don't care about the politics of it all, that's husbands, wives, moms, dads, brothers, sisters, friends, just...gone. Makes me appreciate that I wake up every morning and get to carry a briefcase to work and not a gun. Take a moment to remember them this a.m. And I'll let Tom have the last achingly, beautiful word on this one..." 

"Day After Tomorrow" from the Tom Waits album "Real Gone."

 Welcome home, Soldier.