Posted on 01/06/2008 1:04:30 PM PST by Syncro
They collected 200,000 Christmas and Hanukkah cards and distributed many of them across Iraq.
I’m glad I didn’t see those Christmas pictures at the link until now. (I don’t know where to buy an industrial strength mop.)
Wish I’d been there, too : (
Gold Star Mother Debbie Lee with out Brave Honorable Troops in Iraq at Christmas time.
I will personally vouch for this statement. The cards and letters that I and my troops received meant that someone, somewhere, actually cared about what we were doing. I made it a point to answer every card I received.
-Traveler
It is. But I wanna go : (
That must have been so awesome.
It’s great to get feedback from those of you that got the cards and also to see how much they are appreciated.
Many of the cards that kids made (And there were literally thousands of them from children) even had their phone numbers on them!
I’m betting that some of them got calls.
How great of you to answer all the cards you received.
Again, thanks for fighting to keep our great Country safe!
Awesome!
Traveler, Thank you for your service...:-)
Thanks bro.
I think all agree hearing news like this is priceless. Bravo to all of our brave soldiers and the MAF volunteers who deserve so much credit.
Pearson did visit with a couple of guys who seemed blue. They were thousands of miles away from their families, in a war zone, on the day most Americans were opening presents, playing games and eating loads of food. And praying – for our troops.
“Everywhere we went, we thanked them for their service,” Pearson said. “This whole tour was about our troops.”
Traveling outside of Baghdad with the military is an adventure. Pearson, Lee, and Gonzalez hitched a ride on a helicopter to Ramadi, a city that was once overrun by terrorists, insurgents and outsiders from Iran whose welcome wagons included powerful bombs and other
This is were Lee’s son, Marc Alan, made his last stand and gave his life. This is where a camp was named after Marc Alan. This was an emotional stop.
We cannot talk much about it for security reasons. But a mother who suddenly loses a child always wonders about that child’s last moments. Lee stood in the sand on a dark night in the land where her brave son was “redeployed to Heaven,” as she likes to say.
Loss is a part of life, but it is not natural for a mother to lose her son. Parents should go first. In Iraq, violence still scars the countryside. But Pearson, Lee and Gonzalez witnessed the light that our troops have given the world with their sweat, professionalism, tenacity and their lives.
We are winning in Iraq. But, more importantly, we are safer because children hold our soldiers’ hands. They play on new slides. They go to school. Shops are open. These children and their families will not forget the Americans who saved them first from Saddam Hussein, and then from the terrorists who came to steal their lives.
THANKS TROOPS and thank you MAF for going as our emissary!
BUMP!
THANK YOU for posting this amazing article!
So glad they were able to brighten up a Blue Christmas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbmp-9kudO4&feature=related
Contrary to Democrat chants, U.S. troops are best employed in Iraq to win the Global War on Terror. Minimum penance, considering spiritless, pathetic responses to fifteen previous terrorist attacks, obliges U.S. persistence for Iraq representative government. Highlights of our servile behavior include Carter’s failure to defend Iranian embassy sovereignty. Under Reagan, Marines were forbidden to load weapons when guarding their barracks, and we ran after Hezbollah killed 241 in Beirut. Under Bush #1, Arabs around Basra revolted with U.S. encouragement, and then were abandoned to Hussein’s retribution. Under Clinton, we fled Somalia after 18 Rangers were killed, and allowed Hussein to eject U.N. inspectors.
The State Department now reports many African, Oriental and Asian countries willing to confront terrorism, instead of accommodating these bestial elements to become squalid societies. Our credibility as an ally requires our troops sustaining initiatives Iraqi people are taking for bottom up development of stable neighborhoods and cities. Positive changes at the local level allows emergence of moderate leaders demanding and/or facilitating national reconciliation on difficult issues.
Sustaining confrontational initiatives of African, Oriental and Asian countries brings Global War on Terror victory by frustrating plans, breaking alliances and fracturing organizations of Wahhabi jihadists into ever less effective units. Without cities, countries or armies they live out unnaturally shortened lives as pariahs. Sun Tzu would consider mobilizing allies to minimize our own bloodshed, the greatest achievement of warfare. We will never again fight “The Long War” so cheaply.
You definitely don’t see any of these positive reports coming out of the MSM. It is almost radio silence over there, so you know things must be good.
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