[Coop]

We all need to ask ourselves what we are doing and what more we can do so heroes like Joe Repya know this isn't a repeat of Vietnam.

God bless our troops!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Minnesota's own Lieutenant Colonel Joe Repya!!

We are VERY proud of him!!

Thanks for the ping, Coop.

[SE Mom]

Sometimes I find it useful to read Ernie Pyle. It gives me perspective- and clarifies my thinking.

Here's something from him in April, 1943 in Tunisia.

From Ernie Pyle (April, 1943)

In this one respect the front-line soldier differs from all the rest of us. All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

.........I heard of a high British officer who went over this battlefield just after the action was over. American boys were still lying dead in their foxholes, their rifles still grasped in firing position in their dead hands. And the veteran English soldier remarked time and again, in a sort of hushed eulogy spoken only to himself:

"Brave men. Brave men."

http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/news/erniepyle/bravemen.html

[freema]

Could we get Tony Snow to push for leaflets with FR's website address to get dropped over military bases in Iraq?

[E.G.C.]

BTTT