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1 posted on 11/05/2006 5:44:25 PM PST by mdittmar

This is great!

Thank you mdittmar.

2 posted on 11/05/2006 5:45:58 PM PST by Cindy

Thank you for this great story.

3 posted on 11/05/2006 5:46:53 PM PST by SolidWood

4 posted on 11/05/2006 5:48:19 PM PST by firewalk

Wonderful parents of our wonderful Military.

God bless Iraqi people, our troops and the family who stay behind.

5 posted on 11/05/2006 5:48:36 PM PST by JFC

Wonderful parents of our wonderful Military.

God bless Iraqi people, our troops and the family who stay behind.

6 posted on 11/05/2006 5:48:38 PM PST by JFC

I'll celebrate when Saddam is burning in hell! I don't want to end up like Charlie Brown since there is the appeals process.

7 posted on 11/05/2006 5:50:29 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (Pig's blood for Saddam!)

10 posted on 11/05/2006 6:00:39 PM PST by Matchett-PI (To have no voice in the Party that always sides with America's enemies is a badge of honor.)

I went to the site that has pictures...and if you scroll down, they are offering T-Shirts with the famous picture of the troops with the "jon carry" banner.

Of course the proceeds go to the troops...

Christmas is coming up everyone!!

12 posted on 11/05/2006 6:01:54 PM PST by Txsleuth (EVERYONE VOTE---AND VOTE REPUBLICAN,...even if you have to hold your nose!)

13 posted on 11/05/2006 6:03:19 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")

Sorry everyone, but I just wish they wouldn't have gone. Iraq isn't a tourist destination. It is a very dangerous place. Wait for a few years until things settle down a bit, and then go. But they aren't going to the place where their loved one died. It would pain me so much more to be so close yet not be at the site.

14 posted on 11/05/2006 6:14:34 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (Tears for the fallen! Resolve to finish the job!)

My heart stirred when I read this. I am greatly moved by our people standing up for what is right at the expense of their loved ones even.

15 posted on 11/05/2006 6:24:40 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)

I am wondering if we wont see an even more determined Iraqi people now that they can finally believe that the butcher is not going to ever walk their streets again - he can never regain power. Their nightmare is going to hang

Even Bathists have got to be disheartened - Hooray.

16 posted on 11/05/2006 6:27:14 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Lincoln)

To: mdittmar; hoosiermama

Wow! This is GREAT! God bless these families and praise the LORD that their sacrifice is NOT in vain!

JUSTICE!!!

(And when this beast meets his Maker........punishment!)

17 posted on 11/05/2006 6:46:33 PM PST by ohioWfan (Hot monogamy rocks!.......should I change my tagline on serious threads??)

Thanks for posting this!

BTTT!

19 posted on 11/05/2006 6:49:24 PM PST by Impeach98 (Anti-war protestors should try holding rallies in Damascus and Tehran!)

God bless all the Gold Star families and bless this trip.

25 posted on 11/05/2006 6:59:28 PM PST by Lady Jag (Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid)

I know so many Freepers read this story with a deep heartfelt thank you for all those people that have made it possible for these moms,dads,sisters,brothers to be able to travel to Iraq. May they leave with a feeling of peace and clouser, with the full knowledge their loved ones did not die in vain.
The Iraq War is an epic event in modern history. I dare not chance diminshing it's significance with phrases that do not envelope the full ramifications it will mean to literally hundreds of millions of people that have long lived in object poverty of spirit and now can peep at what so many in the west so gravely neglect to hold sacred.
GWB is right. All peoples regardless of the position in life seek freedom of thought and choice.
Not only the Muslim world can now see a different choice, but all those that live in still oppressive countries the world over, see that good can triumph over evil. GWB and America and all the Coalition forces and their respective governments have given tens of millions of people around this globe a refreshed hope that their day may come when they can seek good governments by a free process of voting and then have the rights under laws to hold those governments accountable.
GWB and our armed forces have done more for this world's peoples then all the horse manure generated over the years by the UN.
One would be foolish at best, if they where to think peoples in still oppressed countries around the world are not following what happens in Iraq very closely where they somehow can get access to world news.
And the taste and smell of freedom exhales from their nostrils as they to dream of the rights we in America often take for granted.
GWB knows in his heart of hearts, that dispite what may be written of him. He had the balls to go against the grain and do the right thing.

26 posted on 11/05/2006 7:11:53 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)

God bless these families - their valor is greater than any pain death can give. May their journey bring them peace and joy.

27 posted on 11/05/2006 7:20:21 PM PST by dandelion

30 posted on 11/05/2006 11:58:24 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...

FReepers Kristinn, RWGuy and reaganite84 are part of this historic trip to Iraq!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

33 posted on 11/06/2006 12:04:35 AM PST by nutmeg (National security trumps everything else.)

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