"As for the van? As a parent there is no way on God's earth that I would ever put the lives of my children deliberately at risk period."

What does this have to do with the thread?

The Idea that the children were deliberately put at risk is your assertion unsupported by any eveidence anywhere, let alone on the video.

Paradoxically, you support your son being put at risk by being posted in Afghanistan.

The kids in Iraq were in their home town.

Your son has travelled half the world to be in his life/death situation.

So perhaps you are in no position to be so scathing about that poor dad who died whilst trying in vain to cover his children.