Spc. Mikayla A. Bragg
The Department of Defense announced the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Spc. Mikayla A. Bragg, 21, of Longview, Wash., died Dec. 21 in Khowst province, Afghanistan. She was assigned to the 201st Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Knox, Ky.
No. 1040-11
December 23, 2011
Watching a movie with a lot of shots, violence, and death ends up making me sit on the bathroom floor and cry? This does not really surprise me to the fact that I am an emotional wreck lately but still I feel extremely pathetic. The shots made me think of what you had to go through, maybe not as extreme as the movie but still they were shots. So as as I stop to think about that I think about your death, how you died. I remember I didn’t find out how you died exactly until probably four hours after I
got told you were gone: head shot. While talking to mom about it and then darren blurted in that at least it was fast and no pain was felt due to the head shot I lost it. That was a a fact that I probably could have gone without knowing. Trying to think about the pain of that. How the hell does anyone know that it doesn’t hurt or there’s no pain? Have they ever been shot in the damn head? And so thinking on that note about how it happened, how you were in a tower, about to go to break then blam, head shot. I’m trying to figure out how the reaction was. Did you go through anymore damage after? Was there someone right next to you? Were you targeted more because the fact that you are a girl? These are questions, among many, that will never be answered for me or the family because you’re gone and apparently no one knows a damn thing. They’re still doing your investigation or so they say, which is almost at a six month mark and we’ve heard nothing back. The army has done so much in ways and then they seem effortless in other ways. I don’t know what to think at this moment, it’s three in the morning and i’m wide awake. I just wanna cuddle up and sleep but I know there’s no way in hell that’s gonna happen right now. Probably making him mad, too bad. I know he’s not. I want to not associate death with you anymore. I want to associate happiness and sister with you, i miss you & love you.
fuck laptops.
So this is it. I talked to you. Told you how I wanted to see you again, said I hope you’ll be safe out there. Said god bless. And that was it. You were gone.
I love you. I’m stressed. I’m tired. I’m crying. I’m sorry. I’m going to go to bed.
