Bring ‘em all home. NOW!
Hey gang…
As you probably know, I had adopted a soldier. His name is Daryl and I only sent him one card. I had JUST gotten a care package together for him and today, I received a phone call from the director of Soldier’s Angels.
Daryl was killed in action. That’s it. Killed in action. My heart sank. My stomach turned. I had never met Daryl, but I wanted so very much for him to remain safe and do his job while remaining positive. Many of the soldiers are simply doing their job. They’re being put in harm’s way because of cirmcumstances out of their control and many of them don’t agree with the war. BUT, they’re soldiers. They didn’t sign up without the knowledge of one day possibly seeing ‘action’.
I want them home now. I don’t care about an exit strategy. I don’t care if they run away like school girls and the entire world thinks us foolish for leaving without so much as a word. I don’t care. I want them home. I want them to be with their families.
Sure, that’s completely unreasonable, but I have a son. I have a daughter and they’re relatively safe. If you’re reading this and you have a family member or a friend over there, do more for their families stateside. Write to the soldiers. Let them know that they matter to you and that, while you don’t agree with the war, you support THEM.
I’m going to move forward and adopt another soldier. It’s the price of a stamp. That’s all it takes to boost someone’s morale.
Daryl is finally safe. It’s a shame that it had to be this way.
June 21st, 2007 at 1:37 pm
OMG I am so sorry to hear this. I wished they would bring all our soliders home. I appreciate all their efforts to give us our freedom, but I hate seeing people lose their loved ones.
June 21st, 2007 at 1:45 pm
yes, i know…but we can all adopt a soldier in the meantime. by doing that, we can show them that we support them, but not the war and make it so much more real and important than political. each of them is a member of our collective family.
Keep a good thought, will ya?
I’m not sure how I feel right now.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:34 pm
How does a person adopt a soldier? This is something I would like to get my kids involved with.
June 21st, 2007 at 6:27 pm
You can go to Soldier’s Angels, which is where I am right now, but I want to be able to correspond with them, so I’m doing some research on it.
I’ll let you know.
Also, once I figger out how to do the tag thingy I’m going to put up my list of cool girl bloggers. I didn’t forget about you!
It’s been a strange couple of days for me…hmmm.Need to take it easy on myself I guess.
As if that’s possible.
: )