who cant stop thinking of our soldiers over in iraq?

Question

what they must be going thru and feeling has got to b something we cant imagine as civilians

Answer 1

I've been thinking about the situation in Iraq all year, and I'm not even from a country that has soldiers fighting there.
(Well, at least, not our own army. The US military recruited some of our First Nations young people to join its army.) I'm close enough to the border to have American friends, though.

It must be so demoralizing to be fighting a second, third, and in some cases fourth tour of duty in an illegal war of occupation. I'm so glad that active duty soldiers have begun to speak up and call upon their politicians to bring the troops home.

I was so upset yesterday when I saw an American guy I know who just came home from his second extended tour of duty and is is set to be deployed for his third (this one in Afghansitan). The storm of conflict within him was palpable even when he was saying nothing, and the trauma of what he's done and seen is all over his face.
It reminds me of the looks on the faces a year ago of a couple of guys I met who had become Resisters and refused to go back. A year later those two are much healthier, but a friend of theirs just did a 2-3 month stint in a psych ward because his experiences were so traumatic.
I really hope the VA will have the resources to be able to provide adequate counselling for all the soldiers who are not only wounded physlically, but suffering PTSD.
I've talked to enough soldiers, enough military wives and girlfriends, to know that guys who've come home are already demonstrating much higher levels of participation in substance abuse and domestic assaults than they were before. I guess that's a byproduct of teaching young men to stop seeing people as people, but targets. Sometimes that training spills over into real life, when they have flashbacks or trauma or extreme anger once they get home. I just hope they are able to speak up and get help for it....and that the help will be there when they do.

Answer 2

I can't, my daughter can't, most of my friends cant. We are Army, my husband has been to the Middle East once, and the knowledge that he could go again is always over our heads. He also worked at Landstuhl for awhile, he saw first-hand what is happening in Iraq, I think I would have cried every night seeing some of the stuff that he saw. He saw men and women from all branches of the service. He even saw an injured K-9 come in with his handler. We are in our 30's but have you seen some of the people over there? I see pictures of some of the troops and they don't even look old enough to be out of high school, it's especially heart-breaking when you see those faces in our newspaper column that details the latest injuries and deaths.

Answer 3

I think it's an ignorance in a way. I mean that in the best way possible, but I do think it's impossible to understand what they go through unless you've been there. It's also true that some see a lot more than others, but either way, it's still not a safe place over there and every day those guys (and girls) have to fear for their lives.

Answer 4

This is on my mind each and everyday. My husband is currently on his second year long tour to Iraq and it's really hard to imagine what he is going through on an everyday basis. I often wonder whether or not anyone ever really gets used to it. However, I pray for all our troops and families every night before I go to sleep because I for one know exactly how it feels to have a loved one deployed for extended periods of time and I know JUST how hard it is mentally and emotionally.
HOOAH

Answer 5

i do no longer see how keeping squaddies in Iraq or Afghanistan is keeping something different than oil earnings. the warriors are individuals too, and that they relatively are no safer. the biggest single loss of yank freedoms got here no longer from fictional "terrorists" yet from a pair of little issues called "the Patriot Act" and "the situation of beginning secure practices Act" . the real shame of all it relatively is the complacency of the final American in all this. The Afghan conflict has been happening for 10 years now, and we nonetheless are not sparkling as to what the objective is! you won't be able to win a conflict against precis enemies like "terror", and with out enemy, there would be no objective and ultimately no victory. to make sparkling for Katsumi, we now no longer have a superb to privateness because of the kin spying provisions interior the patriot act, you could google "decide on the flow netting" to verify how undesirable it relatively is. additionally there is not any sparkling criminal definition of a "terrorist", yet once you should be unlucky to be categorised as one, you lose all rights to due technique, meaning that the government can actually arrest you, grab your belongings, carry you indefinitely for gratis or trial, they do no longer even would desire to enable you communicate with the exterior worldwide or tell all of us they have you ever...that's what rights we lost.

Answer 6

I'm sure there are alot of people who have other things on their minds, but for me personally; it's a daily on-going emotion. When we, as civilions, know there isn't a whole lot we can do about it, and the situation is pretty much out of our hands, then we just have to believe that God is in control of everything.

Answer 7

It is always in my mind and a little too close to home. My hubby is an Air Force pilot and has been there a few times. We have friends who have been killed and you're right, we have NO IDEA what it's like over there.

Answer 8

Please add the innocent Iraqi civilians too in your prayers , who are being butchered for the sin of born in OIL rich Iraq.

Answer 9

Whoever said "*** em", "***" you.

What kind of BS is it to pick and choose what soldiers to pray for? If you're going to pray for them, pray for them all.

I can't stop thinking about them, because my husband is one of them, on his second deployment right now. I think about him every day.

Answer 10

WE do not stop tinking about them. They are each and everyone in our daily prayers. You may join the presidentialprayerteam.com and select the trops you want to pray for. They are in need of your prayers.