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"I have one son, three nephews, and a cousin in Iraq and one son and a son-in-law in Afganistan. Each say things are getting better everyday. Not perfect everyday, but better each day"
Please, thank yours for their service to our country.
I lost a nephew in Iraq on Thanksgiving 2005. A 12 yr vet, on his second tour. His unit was "in charge" for a time of protecting a CNN news crew gathering info on the progress...
They took them all over, showing them rebuilt-staffed and re-equipped fire dept. stations, schools where girls were being taught for the first time, where water wells had been dug and then poisoned by "insurgents", rebuilt markets, pumping oil wells....
The News crew took about 5 minutes of that footage, then spent an hour filming the burned out hulk of a station wagon that had been used in a suicide bombing a month before.
when my nephew, a S.Sgt, told his Lt. (the daughter of a Brig. General,) who is now the head of The Provost Marshal General of the Army, and the Commander of the Army Criminal Investigation Command, she politely mentioned to the talking heads over chow that they may want to keep their heads down tomorrow, 'cuz they were heading into a known hotbed...
The CNN crew bugged out before the carrot cake was served.
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We are not primarily on earth to see through one another, but to see one another through
Some people are like slinkies: not really good for anything... but you can't help laughing when you push them down the stairs
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