Posted on 05/05/2005 6:57:28 AM PDT by Pokey78
On a day of carnage, it was an intimate image: a soldier clutching a child in his arms.
When Amy Bieger, mother of three boys, wife of an infantryman in Iraq, saw the picture on the Internet on Tuesday night, she stared at the little feet dangling in the nook of the man's arm, at the soldier's helmeted head pressed to the child's face. She stared and tears welled up.
"I said 'Oh my God, it is one of our soldiers,'" Bieger, 34, said yesterday from her home outside the Fort Lewis, Wash., Army post. "Then I stared at the [name] patch. I made out the rank and then the last four letters of the name and I knew it was my husband."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Because if the recruiting/police go underground the terrorists win.
All of this has to be done out in the open for the entire world to see.
Thanks for the ping, Tonk.
Sometimes a picture captures what words cannot.
God bless that precious child, God bless and comfort the beautiful, tender, loving heart of that wonderful young soldier, and God bless all our brave and caring troops - they represent the heart and soul of this country and all that is good about America. May the Lord watch over them all and keep them safe.
Very true and very well said.
Thanks for the ping!
Do we want to start an online "pool" to take dibs on how fast the liberals will turn this whole thing around and make it all America's fault (i.e., Bush, our military, FReepers, Fox News.....)?
BTTT!!!!!!
I can understand that. It took me aback for a moment as well. :)
Thanks for the ping Tonk.
To echo another, poster; I, too, am humbled to be an American. I am so proud of our military. God bless them and keep them safe, and God bless America.
Ishaq:489 Do the bastards think that we are not their equal in fighting? We are men who think that there is no shame in killing.
Tabari IX:69 Killing disbelievers is a small matter to us.
Quran 9:112 The Believers fight in Allahs Cause, they slay and are slain, kill and are killed.
"Allah's cause" is to make the entire world Islam. The killing has been going on since Muhammad took a simple bunch of Arab rock worshipers, who were not viloent or evil at the time, hijack their simple rock cult and turned them into a bunch of blood thirsty theives, muderers, rapists, all with the blessing of this Allah rock god.
Quran 8:39 So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world).
This won't stop until they are stoped, or they win. This is what the left is supporting.
Ishaq:324 He said, Fight them so that there is no more rebellion, and religion, all of it, is for Allah only. Allah must have no rivals.
Athiests, pagans, this means you too. Nobody is safe from Islamic fundamentalism. They follow the ways of Muhammad to the letter.
Ishaq:587 Our onslaught will not be a weak faltering affair. We shall fight as long as we live. We will fight until you turn to Islam, humbly seeking refuge. We will fight not caring whom we meet. We will fight whether we destroy ancient holdings or newly gotten gains. We have mutilated every opponent. We have driven them violently before us at the command of Allah and Islam. We will fight until our religion is established. And we will plunder them, for they must suffer disgrace.
I'm sure the MSM will show this photo over and over again just like they did the Abu Ghraib photos. (SARCASM)
Thank You for posting this story and picture.
Our troops rock!!
God Bless them all.
Thanks for the ping. Great article.
Rev 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded: and there were great voices in heaven, saying,the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ:and he shall reign forever and ever.
Part of it is that it isn't Islam at all. The religion has been highjacked by the extremists in most cases. UBL, Zarquawwi, et. al. are using it as a propeganda machine. In most cases.
Read Atomic Iran by Dr. Corsi for a real in depth look at the mind of the Ayatollahs running Iran and some of the quotes attributed to them. It's a sham and Islam is being used as thread to rally the poorest of the poor to rise to tyrannical levels (suicide bombers) all in the name of their "loving God?" juxtaposed with a hate (or ire) for the US (read Christianity) and the material wealths.
Truthfully, I'll never understand Islam either. I am starting to see that it really isn't about Islam for the most part. Just as we Christians don't associate with the Supremacists or acknowledge their actions as in our interest, so is the hard right (left?) Islamofacists.
Thanks for letting me share so of what I've found. Hope I didn't bore you with any of this.
K4
Hey Sarge, see anything wrong with this????? Those are NOT the last four letters of US ARMY on the tag above the left pocket.
I commented that it was reminiscent of OKC bombing picture of little Bayley Ammon being held by the firefighter.
There's something wrong about your tagline... especially on this thread...
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