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SeeksOnlyOne -> RE: sunday morning thinking.... (7/8/2007 1:53:25 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Level
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
I'll leave the flames to big meanies like Level, Seeks.
It's easy to feel that way, especially when the media decides to only tell the parts of the story that fit a particular agenda.
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Rich makes a good point, in that many times, the media paints a story in a certain way (and it happens without the media people meaning too, at times), eliciting specific feelings from the news consumers. It can be a long, tiring process trying to find the truth, or "truth", sometimes.
There isn't anything wrong with wanting the soldiers to come home, seeksonlyone, nor is there anything wrong with a soldier believing that being there is helping the Iraqi people.
oh i have talked to soldiers....a few of the teachers and one nurse at my school have husbands serving.......and they all say they feel like theyre doing good for the people there....and i support the troops 100%.....i was in the army for 3 years, and have wondered if i would have joined had this been going on......
our nurses hubby is a battalion commander....he came and spoke to our kids at school....and i almost cried. the way he answered the questions, telling them how they werent there to kill people, but to help them.....he was the perfect person to talk to elementary school kids and his convictions about the good were doing there were real.
i was able to ask him, in private and point blank, do you think were doing any good.....and he told me yes. he told me of the many kids and women he has seen blossom, stories he has heard from his men and women about acts of kindness from iraqi's, hugs they have rec'd and thank yous.
the few folks i have spoken to that are over there now, or have been, all speak of seeing good we are doing, and are proud to have been a part of it......a couple of them also wonder, like me, if it will last when we leave....lately i have only been able to see it through the eyes of a mom i guess.....and it just breaks my heart to see the babies being killed.
time will tell i guess....it always does......meanwhile-who mentioned a swim and bloody marys? that could make me feel all spiritual and stuff i am sure.[:)]
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