[2ndDivisionVet]

Well said.

[pandoraou812]

Yes it was...God Bless our soldiers past & present.

[Darkwolf377]

These sentiments can never be expressed enough. Things like Abu Grahbe give the lefties who claim to so love the American soldier, and you saw the response--endless hatred spewed at our soldiers, as if all of them were guilty. The New Yorker crowd seemed to long for the days of spitting on returning men in uniform...

As bad as the actively hateful, in a way, are the mass of us who don't think enough about how different things would be without these men and women going off to die, cutting their lives short for our benefit. That Stein and the rest of us have luxuries is merely a side-effect. When we went to war in WW2, it wasn't because we were threatened by Nazis, but because we WOULD be; similarly, we didn't go to war because Saddam was going to show up in DC, but because the Middle East is careening towards the day when some mad mullah can and WILL attempt to wipe us out using nukes or biological weapons.

That that day will never come, or will at least be delayed, is because of our soldiers.

I make a point of saying I didn't serve on these threads because too often we have armchair warriors full of bluster who seem to have all the answers. I've never put it on the line the way these men and women have, but that doesn't mean I can't have an opinion about whether theirs was a noble effort or not.

In WW2, as now, these people who fought and fight do so for good reasons. Knowing that fills me with confidence in the mission.

Can Nancy Pelosi, with all her tossing around on TV today about how often she prays for our troops and their CinC, say that?

[dakine]

Think I’ll go to the mall...

[xzins]

This time of year in Iraq, the temperature is still in the 100s, and our troops don’t go outside the gate without wearing about 50 pounds of gear.

[StarCMC]

We can get on our knees and thank God or Heaven or the Universe or History or the American man and woman that we had these heroes to save us and the world. And then we can get up and look out at the blue sky and give thanks again that we have them right now.

Amen! Canteen ping...

[TASMANIANRED]

Full agreement.

Prayers lifted for them.

[Freeport]

I think there’s a new conservative in the offing here....

[SUHU]

http://thankasoldier.org/