Posted on 01/01/2011 1:55:33 PM PST by Pan_Yan
Btt.
tonight: National Geographic ch 8-10
Are we brave enough to watch what our heroes go through so we can sleep in a warm bed, (without having personally experienced the horrific scenes they have interrupting your rest for the rest of your life,) eat hot food, have a chair to sit in!, and enjoy the freedoms they guard for us?
Just a couple hours of our time - to get a glimpse of this 15 months in “The Most Dangerous Place on Earth” - and many of them just got back from another 12 months there.
Can we spare a couple hours in appreciation?
When you see a soldier, can you shake his hand. If you see a soldier in a restaurant, can you quietly pick up his tab?Can you send a box or a card to a soldier still out there?
You say: “I wish I could buy him a beer and not ask him one question.”
You wish to honor Sal? He’s tells you how. Honor each and every soldier you come across. (see my post at link below)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2650282/posts?page=22#22
:-) Thank you.
I just finished watching it.
Just damn.
Still brings tears to my eyes - even at the very end when that helicopter finally lifts off and takes them out of that hellhole - my dear grandson, who grew up in my home, was on that chopper - after 15 months.
He just got off his second tour there, 12 months - Pray his last.
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