Live From Iraq, It’s Indirect Fire!

Civilian Irregular Information Defense Group ^ | 25 FEB 2007 | Cannonette

[Cannoneer No. 4]

ping

[JemiansTerror]

Thank you for the sacrifice that you are making. Its not easy having to let the people you love go out and do these things. You not only have let your husband do it, but also your sons. Thank you.

[fatima]

(((Hugs)))I need a puppy.

[JemiansTerror]

*ping*

[MNJohnnie]

Dear God,

I ask of you only one thing. Make my country worthy of the sacrifice those going in harm way, and those who wait for them here at home, make on our behalf.

[Jemian]

I want to echo what my son, JemiansTerror, said. You are sacrificing and serving our country by minding the home front. i completely echo your sentiments. God Bless You.

JT, thanks for the ping. Keep your head down.

[MarineMom613]

My son is leaving on Monday and I am not sure how I will handle the newsflow. Just looking at breaking news for the last two weeks have had me on edge due to all the attacks. My son has a wife, 2 sons and 1 more due in 3 weeks. I have seen other military family members read and follow these threads with their hearts in their hands.
My son believes in his mission and I support him 150%. I just wish the damn DSM would consider the feelings of family members when reporting their garbage.

[fatima]

(((Hugs)))

[I got the rope]

Good to see you back...and pinging the list again brother. BTTT.

[Valin]

How will you handle it? You'll be ok lady...remember you've got a couple of thousand (at least) people praying for you and you son.
(IM (not so) HO) the milblogs are a much better source of info on what's going on in Iraq.

[Yardstick]

Are there any milblogs in particular that you would recommend?

[Alamo-Girl]

I’m so scared that the MSM is belittling what our guys and gals do to keep them and all of us free from the crazies. The Left-wing nuts keep going on and on about how Bush lied about______, fill in the blank, you name it its Bush’s fault. What they don’t seem to understand is that if our guys weren’t doing this hard, very lonely job, we here in the States would be fighting the crazies in our front yards, in our malls and in our schools.

So very true!

Thank God for your and our heroes! And thank God for you.

[Valin]

Mudvillegazette
http://www.mudvillegazette.com/milblogs/

Blackfive
http://www.blackfive.net/

Michael Yon
http://michaelyon.blogspot.com/

The Belmont Club
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/

Blogs of War
http://www.blogsofwar.com/

Got a couple of hundred more. :-)
I really need to get a life!

[PhilDragoo]

My great to the fifth fought King George--in that one a third were Tories (Democrat fifth-column scoundrels); a third indifferent (get back to Oprah etc.) and a third knew the score and knew who to pray for and fight with.

Beneath the static of the Ministry of Propaganda lies a vast [silent] majority that knows who the heroes are, knows who to pray for, knows the fight is being fought and won by them.

God Bless you and yours, Keepers of the Flame of Freedom

[Cannoneer No. 4]

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[Cannoneer No. 4]

You can't go wrong with a Rat Terrier puppy. If Rat Terriers had opposable thumbs, they'd have taken over the world by now.

Cannonette's can talk!

[fatima]

(((Hugs)))) I have no great -do I lose:)Only kidding.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

They DO consider the feelings of family members when reporting their garbage. They WANT you crying, sick at heart and ready to protest.

Crying Gold Star Mothers who Blame Bush make great television.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

OPFOR is a pretty good milblog.

The Home Front

Your real family back home, wife/children/mother/father, likely have no way to understand what you are doing or what you have done. They most likely have no frame of reference for what you are doing, for how intense your life is on a minute-by-minute basis. In the ideal world, you would have some time to come back to earth to relearn how to be a human after being out on the front lines. Usually that never happens. You are home and 'poof' it's back to normal. Except its not. Now you have to deal with being a husband/wife/mother/father. The parenting thing may be new, something that occurred when you were gone. Your loved ones may wonder where you are after you get back, because this is not the same person that left 6/12/18/24 months ago.