Posted on 05/11/2009 7:17:54 AM PDT by boxerblues
Edited on 05/11/2009 8:48:36 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I would not take it well, boxerblues. Not well at all....
The waiting and wondering is agonizing beyond my imagining. May God be with those who receive the most terrible of news.
I appreciate the support your show to those in uniform but sometimes there are bad apples in the bunch. Just the way life is.
ROTFLOL - Thanks for the laugh!
We don’t say it often enough, and you certainly didn’t hear it as much as you should have upon your return, so here goes...
Welcome Home My Friend
Thank you for your service
Sudden Jihad Syndrome?
I would not take it well, boxerblues. Not well at all....
We have both been there waiting and wondering. I dont have anyone in Iraq right now, but have one in Afghanistan so at least I can breathe a little bit today, but those poor families, I really cannot imagine what they could be thinking.
This would be a swell time for him to call.........
Can you please explain the rationale behind your comment to P?
Look I am not trying to diminish personal responsibility, but we all have different personal stress thresholds and we all have have different levels of personal discipline -- and to that, while many of the stressors are similar (losing a job), they aren't exactly the same. Each person's experience of it is a little different, because God made us all a little different.
What I am saying is that if you put all of us under the same type and level of stress, not all of us would go off at the same time, but if you kept increasing the stress, sooner or later we'd all lose it -- different type of stress would hit different people sooner and different people later.
No, our guys are inherently homicidal lunatics as the MSM would like you to believe, but injuries don't just happen only to their bodies either. They have souls and those souls can also be badly injured, sometimes with disastrous consequences for themselves and those close to them.
I had a friend years ago whose father during WWII was held down between the lines in a fire fight for 12 hours -- he could not get back to his unit and he was caught in the middle, head down, waiting to die for all that time, but he survived and was sent home. During his absence, my friends mother had taken a job. She also socialized with the people she worked with, men and women in a group. When his father returned, one of his relatives made some remark about how "his wife was spending too much time out with her coworkers" and how one of those coworkers was "a handsome man". His father came home from the busybody relatives' house and immediately killed my friend's mother right in front of him (he was three years old at the time), even though she had never cheated on him. The guy just snapped. He went to prison for ten years and my friend wound up being raised by those same busybody relatives.
Point is that after the stressor of being pinned down in a fire fight, a snide remark by a relative was all it took for him to go home and kill his wife for virtually no reason at all. He just snapped, even though I am sure that he wasn't the only person in history to get pinned down in a fire fight.
As you mentioned, this would be so much different than even the waiting to find out what's gone on after a mortar or rocket attack with casualties. I can't imagine the horror of having a loved one killed in these kinds of circumstances.
MozartLover, Ev is FINE! I will be in prayer for you until you get that precious phone call.
As boxerblues said, we've been there. We're with you!
Please let me know when you find something out. I'll keep checking in here until you're OK.
different shooting. That was 2 soldiers shot in the back by a Iraqi Muslum.
What specifically? Diminishing the effects of combat by blowing it off and calling him a Muslim whackjob?
He wasn’t a U.S. Muslim soldier, he was a U.S. Soldier.
Thanks. I’m pretty sure he’s either still in the “waiting room” or on the road but until I know for sure.........well, you know how it is.
My thoughts and prayers are with you until you find out for sure.
What is the hold up naming the perp? Possibly victims from the same unit?
>What is the hold up naming the perp?
Not to be flippant, but I wonder if the perp may be of a nationality or member of the religion of peace or some other
media show stopper?
Prayers up...
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