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Date: | Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:13:52 -0400 |
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Hey, Family
Just a reminder to please don't stop praying for the troops, soldiers,
sailors, airmen and marines, especially those deployed overseas in dangerous
spots. I'm in regular contact with soldiers in the thick of things and can
tell you it is a 180 degree difference from the lies and twists you hear in
the propagandist press and television and radio news. There is little
difference between the liberation of Iraq and the liberation of Nazi Germany
except in the number of human lives destroyed only because the United States
in the 40s waited longer to get involved, though we still don't know how
many people Saddam has killed or would have. Getting Iraq on its feet and
into the hands of its own people will take longer than cooking a microwave
meal (even a flaming potato. Grin.), which is what the news media and the
politicians who run it would have you think should be the timeframe.
People are getting food and water for the first time in a long while, their
whole lives are changing, and they are being given the opportunity to live
lives that they could not even imagine before. Like beaten children, some
of them will cry for the abusive parents and fight to keep them in the house
rather than allow the law enforcement people who have come to save them to
do their job. It takes a while for that understanding to take root.
The American people remind me of small children on the playground who will
badmouth another child or a teacher because of something they heard from
some other child, just repeating what they were told without knowing what is
really going on. These soldiers know what's going on. And what they are
telling me is that they are being welcomed graciously and gratefully. Yes,
there are still deaths, but there are more deaths in your state today from
traffic accidents and household incidents than that. Yet the news plays it
up, and the other children pass it on.
Anyway, sorry to ramble but just a reminder to keep praying for these young
men and women who are giving their lives so that you and others, even
strangers they never met and can't understand, can live free.
Paul
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