Topic: Bring them home

A Soldier’s Story - An Uncalculated Cost of Modern War

By Turner McCullough Jr. | June 11, 2007 |

As the U. S. forces casualty count of the Iraq War continues to climb, now exceeding 3,500, this news story of a Fort Campbell soldier’s struggle to retain his composure and regain his sanity caught my attention.

The CNN report highlights an underreported aspect of the War On Terror. The fact that this soldier is right here in our midst makes the story all the more compelling. «Read the rest of this article»

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Time to Support the Troops

By Tom Paine | May 26, 2007 |

It is past time for us to support the troops. We have allowed our “leaders” to sacrifice them for far too long in this endless occupation of Iraq. There remain a few that still claim that we can “win” in Iraq, but I think that they, too, deep in their hearts know that that will never happen. We have allowed that nation to devolve into a civil war that we are powerless to prevent.

We told them to overthrow Sadaam Hussein, which they did. They won the war that Bush decided to wage. But then we left them there. As the years dragged on, we sent them back again and again — into a situation that got worse with each passing year. And they went back, again, and again, tempting fate each time. Some did not return to us and those who did were wounded in body or soul or both. «Read the rest of this article»

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The moment

By Bill Larson | April 3, 2007 |

Georgia10 at Daily Kos wrote the following piece which I modified slightly for presentation here.

Four years after Shock & Awe and counting, the time has come for us not to just support our troops, but to save them.  To stop sending them by the thousands into a civil war, and to bring them home. For a reminder of just what home means, I offer this:

In war, tears will flow as well as blood. Widows and orphans will weep as flags folded by heroes are placed with reverence in their hands. And then there are moments like that. «Read the rest of this article»

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