Posted on 12/22/2004 8:35:22 PM PST by CHARLITE
Supporting the troops means more than wishing them a safe return. It means believing in their mission. If that grows hard with each day of new attacks by insurgents, that is a call to all of us to show but a fraction of the steel spines our fighting forces muster each day.
If they can dodge insurgents' bullets and car bomb shrapnel, the least we can do is refresh our familiarity with what wars are. They are hard, sometimes long and always bloody. This Christmas finds thousands of our military friends and family stationed in barren locales, enduring those hardships so that certain goals can be achieved.
If we focus on those goals rather than on each day's diet of news about the toll the war is taking, it will strengthen us as the new year's challenges approach.
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It burns me to no end the way the MSM and liberals continue to give their immoral support to the terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan. They continue even after being told that similar activities are the reason the communists in Viet Nam decided against calling an end to their attacks against American troops during that war. They say they support the troops, but their actions belie their words, and continue to place the lives of our troops in peril.
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