Sir, our troops want to be there. My husband WANTED to go. He wrote me while he was waiting in Kuwait that he had a mission there. And one day Iraqi children and our children would live in a better world. He had been to the Middle East before in 1991.
You see, typically you join the military because you feel this call to be of service to your country. Some may be in for 4 years and decide that they don’t like the hours (NON-STOP, whenever they need you), the travel (anyplace they want to send you after you get those shots), and all that pay (NOT MUCH AT ALL) and they get out. Hopefully, they’ve learned a little about life and had some values instilled in them that will get them far in life. Then there are the one’s that stay in. They stay because they BELIEVE that defending our country, and those that cannot defend themselves, is the most important thing you can do in this world. My husband was in for 13.5 years and was just getting ready to re-enlist for the fourth time. They would have had to kick him out after 20 years to get him from showing up at the tank ramp every day.
So please, maybe you could go and let people know that our service people want to be there. They want to finish the job. Please go for me, Don’s widow, because I can’t make it there because I have no one to watch my three kids. Please go for my three kids, Mariah, Jack, and Will. Will was born three weeks after Don’s funeral. Someone needs to let Cindy Sheehan and the press that follows her silly actions know that we are here too. I promise the media will be there anyway. And when I was in DC one of her followers asked me “Why aren’t there more of you?”
Yes, why aren’t there more of us?????
Pinging you to read #29.
And I am so sorry your husband was killed. In my eyes, Mariah, Jack and Will's daddy is a hero.
I would go if I lived in NY,but I am in Oregon and making plans to be in DC on Sept.15TH for the GOE II.
God bless you for being so strong for your children and for defending your husbands honor to people like Cindy Sheehan.
Your husband and all our fallen heroes will never be forgotten.
Deb, thank you from the heart for your story and point-of-view. Your patriotic husband was a hero and surely his memory and your mutual sacrifice **shall not** be forgotten.
I know the first instinct is to just let it go. She truly isn’t worth it. But she is WRONG. She says that Bush lied. She thinks she is helping our troops by bringing them home.
Sir, our troops want to be there. My husband WANTED to go. He wrote me while he was waiting in Kuwait that he had a mission there. And one day Iraqi children and our children would live in a better world. He had been to the Middle East before in 1991.
You see, typically you join the military because you feel this call to be of service to your country. Some may be in for 4 years and decide that they don’t like the hours (NON-STOP, whenever they need you), the travel (anyplace they want to send you after you get those shots), and all that pay (NOT MUCH AT ALL) and they get out. Hopefully, they’ve learned a little about life and had some values instilled in them that will get them far in life. Then there are the one’s that stay in. They stay because they BELIEVE that defending our country, and those that cannot defend themselves, is the most important thing you can do in this world. My husband was in for 13.5 years and was just getting ready to re-enlist for the fourth time. They would have had to kick him out after 20 years to get him from showing up at the tank ramp every day.
So please, maybe you could go and let people know that our service people want to be there. They want to finish the job. Please go for me, Don’s widow, because I can’t make it there because I have no one to watch my three kids. Please go for my three kids, Mariah, Jack, and Will. Will was born three weeks after Don’s funeral. Someone needs to let Cindy Sheehan and the press that follows her silly actions know that we are here too. I promise the media will be there anyway. And when I was in DC one of her followers asked me “Why aren’t there more of you?”
Yes, why aren’t there more of us?????
29 posted on 07/26/2007 2:22:39 PM PDT by debm29palms (Proud Wife of SSgt. Donald C. May, Jr. KIA 03-25-03)
You are magnificent and your personal sacrifices and ordeals spotlights how soulless ghouls like Sheehan need to be seen for what they are. May you pick hope and purpose back up while we conservative-minded make her traitorous life a living hell.