How dare President Bush continue to screw with the lives of the American people? How dare he make decisions that affect us without listening to our majority??
Randy* was in the Army for 6 years. He spent 11 months in Afghanistan. He came home with medals honoring his bravery and he brought all of his men home safely. He decided to get out of the Army at the end of his time. That was Sept 2005. This weekend he leaves for South Carolina for two weeks of training and then he's being deployed to Iraq. This man retired from the Army. He put his time in. He made everyone that knows him proud. How dare he have to leave his life again, this time not by his choice? How dare his mother have to go through another year of the unknown?
Do you know what its like to have someone you care about fighting a war? Let me tell you a little about it. You think about them constantly. You always have butterflies in your stomach from worrying. You watch the news incessantly always fearing the worst. When you finally fall asleep at night, you have nightmares about what could be happening to him. When you receive an email, a phone call or a letter you feel like the luckiest person in the World that he's still thinking about you. When they come home, they are different. Not necessarily bad different, just "I've seen a lot of shit I can't talk about" different. Sometimes, they don't come home and they leave a 22 year old girl as a widow.
Damn it, I'm angry! Why doesn't anyone in "power" give a shit? Let's see President Bush's daughters have to go fight the war and see how quickly it would end then!
*Name changed to protect privacy
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Thanks for writing this.
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