
Before you being one of two things.
At the bottom of this post is a VERY graphic picture. It is NOT be be viewed by children or anyone who is squeamish. Consider yourself warned. I will expect NO COMPLAINTS for the public.
Secondly. I have considered writing about this subject for a very long time. I am still not sure if I have all the words to describe my feelings about this. I know it upsets me, and those that I love and so..........
Take a moment to think about the ramifications of this statement.
Many people say it, many think it as well.
There is even a group of people in this country that WISH and HOPE that we fail in Afghanistan and Iraq. BUT!!!!! They say they support the men and women in uniform carrying out the orders of out Commander in Chief.
For sometime now it has been very upsetting to me that people feel this way and splice the war and the troops in it with such a statement. I remember when Ya-Ya went to Iraq the first time and people would day to me,
" I support people like your brother-in-law, but I don't support this war."
To this day I still DO NOT understand this statement.
The men and women that give up months of their lives to leave their families to help another group of people across the globe need 100% of your support. Not 50%.
Perhaps Americans not personally touched by this War can not fathom how WE, as their families feel about what they are doing far away from home.
Being a wife, of a man in the Army, A sister to a Man in the Marine Corps is something I am very proud of! It is close to may heart and will be forever.
Paddy and Ya-Ya believe in something bigger that all of us. they believe in Freedom. I know I know people say THIS ALL THE TIME!!! It's the latest catch phrase. BUT REALLY!!!
Have you ever been to a country that has no democracy? Have you ever thought about a life of utter chaos and hopelessness for your children?
The Mothers and Fathers in Iraq and Afghanistan do.
I asked Paddy a few weeks ago if he was scared to go to Afghanistan.
This is what he told me:
" I have come to believe that I am a good doctor. I am told this by my patients and my peers. I spent time in the Army learning to be a good solider, and learning how to care for my soldiers. I believe with all that I am that I am about to embark on the most important journey of my life. I am about to go to war to care for men and women that people say they support, but spit on the very core of what they are doing. I am going to help my fellow soldiers in a new capacity. I am there to care for them. I have spent a good many years of this war here at home listening to the hypocrisy of my fellow Americans rant and rave against the war and then hear them verbally slap the American solider in the face with hopes of failure in the middle east., and it sickens me.
I am not afraid to go to war and I am not afraid that I might not come back. Because what I will be doing is healing freedom."
My point is this. You can't support the American Troops and then say what you do about not supporting the
WAR ON TERROR
It goes together. To simplify it, it's like saying.
" I support education, but I don't support the men and women fighting illiteracy in the country."
Please stop and think about this, before you say it.
Would YOU REALLY tell this man and his family that you support him, but not the reason that he die!















