My prayers are with all the servicepeople.. I pray for their safe return.
2006-07-09 06:02:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I have been there, and my son is likely to go.
2006-07-09 09:06:24 · answer #1 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I have a nephew serving in Afghanistan and a close friend's son is serving in Iraq. The one in Afghanistan feels that he just might accomplish something. His company is searching for people who can tell us where Isama bin Laden is hiding.
The one in Iraq feels that we're losing far more friends than we're gaining. He's been there all but three weeks since March of 2003. He was supposed to have been home in no more than six to nine months. He enlisted a month after 9/11. He only had two more semesters of college until he graduated with a PhD., a four-year program. He's just that patriotic.
Now he feels that he can serve his Country best by going home, all of us. We're no longer wanted or appreciated there. We got rid of Saddam Hussein for them and that's all they wanted or asked us to do. Now they want us to leave so they can run (or ruin) their own country, the same way that democratic countries like ours do.
Most of the people of Iraq feel the same way as our military. Morale is way, way down. It's like Vietnam was. It's over and up to the people who live there now. Everybody wants us to go home and we want to come home. Everybody wants our kids home except a few top-ranking politicians and generals. George was in a national guard tour in name only and Dick Cheney has never served or even pretended to have served a single day in the military. Neither he nor George wanted any part of Vietnam.
I know eleven more young people who are in the military/national guard right now. Five are in Iraq.
I think all our soldiers there are doing a great job and one I wouldn't want to have to be doing. The ones in Iraq were sent there under false pretexts. If you want to call me a liar, there are 100 senators and 435 congresspersons in this Country. Not a single one of them have a son or daughter serving in any branch of the military in Iraq. Yet I have a very small family, only six nephews, and one of the three who are old enough is over there. Of the other eleven kids I know in the miltary, five are over there. And out of 535 congress and senate folks, not a single one has a kid over there or ever has. The odds on that would be astronomical if it wasn't a totally fixed fight from start to finish.
Yes, I pray for them all each and every night and I hope they can all come home safely. God bless them all!
I'm doing my best for you!
---uncle doug
2006-07-09 14:01:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband is there for the second time and it is the hardest thing I have ever been through. I get to see him again next week for the first time in eight months and then he is headed back for four more months, It's a hard life to live, every single prayer helps so I thank you and don't forget to include the family's in your prayers.
2006-07-09 19:32:16 · answer #3 · answered by Eunice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband and about 80% of his company is currently there.
Thank you for your prayers. It helps!
The soldiers are doing a fine job in Iraq. Keep praying that it continues and that they will all come home safely after the mission is complete.
2006-07-09 13:08:06 · answer #4 · answered by Obama, 47 y/o political virgin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amen, sister. The husband of one of my co-workers, who had earlier served in Desert Storm, was over there for over a year but has thankfully returned home safely. My heart aches for all of those who are waiting for loved ones to return, and even more for those who have lost husbands or wives, fathers or mothers, sons or daughters. I am proud of the work they are doing there. I wish the media was portraying all of the good they have accomplished, despite all the problems.
2006-07-09 13:09:23 · answer #5 · answered by just♪wondering 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several people including my cousin in the USAF. I spent 18 months in Iraq as a civilian working with the troops outside of Baghdad, Tikrit and Kirkuk. God bless them all.
2006-07-09 13:17:32 · answer #6 · answered by iraq51 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THANK YOU. MY BOYFRIEND WHO IS ONLY 49 JOINED THE SERVICE WHEN HE WAS ONLY 16 MAYBE 17 AND IS NOW RETIRED FROM THE SERVICE, BUT HE JUST CAN'T SEEM TO GET ENOUGH SO HE NOW GOES BACK AS A CONTRACTOR WHERE HE STAYS ON A BASE IN BALAD, IRAQ AND CAN ONLY COME HOME 3X A YEAR. I MISS HIM AND WORRY EVERY DAY AND ALSO PRAY FOR HIS AND ALL OUR GUYS OVER THERE SAFE RETURN.
2006-07-09 13:10:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not any longer.
My former commander and his chief Warrant Officer were there back in the first turn, but they're back since a while already. I was really worried about them, they are good men...
2006-07-09 13:28:51 · answer #8 · answered by mat_wisniewski 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No..but think about them all the time. They really need to come home.
2006-07-09 13:05:39 · answer #9 · answered by meljdavis05 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good friend of mine is over there..thank you so much for your prayers...i will also pray for you
best wishes
2006-07-09 13:07:28 · answer #10 · answered by sunshine25 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋