[A.A. Cunningham]

Scheisskopf headline editor. Justin Wilson is a Marine not a soldier.

[mommyq]

We Americans really can do something for those who are deployed. There are groups all over the country who send boxes of personal items to the soldiers. We can get involved and help out.

I have mentioned several times on this board that I make greeting cards for the heroes deployed. I send them to an organization called Operation Write Home. They send out thousands of cards every month so these guys can keep in touch with their families back home.

Sometimes I get to a point where I’m no longer interested, and then I read a thank you note from one of them. They truly know how to show gratitude.

Ultimately, I’m glad I found a way to do a small act of kindness for them. Of course, this article had me wondering if I would have stepped forward and inconvenienced myself for the good of a fallen hero.

[grame]

I see, but I must confess until I had a ‘soldier’ of my own, I didn’t see or distinguish between those terms. I wasn’t taught as a child to respect or honor vets, but as I grew older I thought I did, until I had one of my own and I thought I did, and then he went to Kosovo and I thought I did, and then he went to Iraq and I thought I did, and then two of his bunk mates were killed by an ied after they traded positions with my ‘Army’ guy because of a broken down vehicle. I am forever linked to those brave Army heroes who fell that day, and grateful in a much larger way to all those who fall defending our freedom.