[VOA]

What they're doing is proving the conception that the evil ones already have that
as soon as Americans start coming home in body bags, America will lose heart and pull out.

I can't begin to understand the thoughts and emotions of parents/family/friends who are
now attending funerals of a loved one killed following the cessation of "major" hostilities.

All I know is that one of the few times I've cried over something I've heard on radio/TV
(aside from 9-11) was a Paul Harvey vignette about a teacher who had
"rescued" a failing student, only to learn the student was killed in the border line area
between North and South Korea AFTER "peace" had been declared.

These surely ARE the times that try the souls of good people. Good people
from the USA, UK, Australia, Poland, All The Coalition, even the folks in Iraq
who want at least a semblance of a humane society.

With that lenghty prolouge (sp?), I hearby declare I'll be bit scarce at freerepublic
for a week or so.
Today I found my old hometown newpaper has a listing of locals serving overseas...
and I'm going to be getting out some packages to THE REAL Best and Brightest.

Sure, they are volunteers, but they are made of flesh and blood and soul.
And they need to know that WE haven't and WON'T go wobbly.

And now that the deployments have been extended...now is the time to give
tangible support...both in material and moral form.


{OK, y'all can breath a sigh of relief. That's about as pretentious as I'll get
for a good, long time. But I did mean every word of it.)

[PhiKapMom]

Keep doing it -- I enjoyed it.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET



...WHY did the CLINTONS tell us that they were not soft on Terrorism during the 1990's...

...when they had refused 3 Offers to extradite OSAMA bin LADEN from the Sudan to a U.S. Trial that would have stopped the Sept. 11th Attacks from coming down on all of us in advance..?



NEVER FORGET

[doug from upland]

The bastards who are sowing seeds of doubt have to be challenged. We would have won in Vietnam had we had the national will and done what needed to be done. This president is not going to make that mistake. The future of the entire world depends on cleaning up the mess in the Middle East and killing the terrorists. The brave soldiers who have died knew that what they were doing was important.