[raynearhood]

I wish I could talk to Murtha myself, just to drive this point home. I've done two tours in Iraq, with to different units, and I have a possible third tour pending. Out of the two units I deployed with (the first for the invasion the second between '04 and '05) THE ENTIRE TWO UNITS, I found only one dissenter. We all hate it, being away from our families, not being able to come and go as we please, but our moral is definitely not low. We know that what we have done and what we are doing is the right thing. We are reaffirmed every time we meet an Iraqi citizen who hugs us, or shakes our hand, or runs to the edge of the road to wave and smile as we drive by. We are reaffirmed when we meet Iraqi citizens (at the Iraqi tomb of the unknown for example) that expresses their joy at the freedom they have now to be able to walk up to and pay tribute at national monuments, a freedom they were forever denied.

Iraq sucks, but we know what we do is right, and we are proud to do it.

[andyandval]

and we are proud to do it.

And we're proud of you for doing it!

Thanks for your service!

[A message]

Thank You sir for your service.

God Bless you and all who are serving honorably in an honorable mission.

Thanks

[Mr. Lucky]

Thank you, sir.

[vharlow]

Many thanks from my family to yours for your service. I can only say that I observe myself many more people supporting the cause, supporting our fighting men and women, and supporting the rights of Iraqis. God Bless keep you all safe.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thank You for your service to our country.

[griswold3]

I, too, want to take this opportunity to thank you for your service. I love fellow "sheepdogs."
Here is an excerpt from Thomas P.M. Barnett that I think gives my reason for our actions in Iraq. (Conveys my sentiments)
"We were attacked three years ago, without warning or predicate event. The attack was not a gesture of heroic resistance nor the offshoot of some bright utopian resolve, but the very flower of a movement that delights in the potential for martyrdom expressed in the squalls of the newly born. It is a movement that is about death?that honors death, that loves death, that fetishizes death, that worships death, that seeks to accomplish death wherever it can, on a scale both intimate and global?and if it does not warrant the expenditure of what the self-important have taken to calling ?blood and treasure,? then what does? Slavery? Fascism? Genocide? Let?s not flatter ourselves. If we do not find it within ourselves to identify the terrorism inspired by radical Islam as an unequivocal evil?and to pronounce ourselves morally superior to it?then we have lost the ability to identify any evil at all, and our democracy is not only diminished, it dissolves into the meaninglessness of privilege."

[red irish]

Thank you and to your family.

[Gosh I love this neighborhood]

Thank you for your service and God Bless you.

[rodguy911]

Your story needs to be told over and over again, thank you for your service to our country.

[pattty]

raynearhood, Thank You for your service to our country!

[definitelynotaliberal]

I thank you for everything that you do and have done. We honor you.

[Zechariah11]

We salute and thank you.

[ArmyTeach]

Please be reaffirmed again. In my mind I am hugging you and thanking you for your courage, dedication, for going while the rest of us sit comfortably and safely at home. History will know that you are heroes.

[Eaker]

Thank you.

So much.

Eaker