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I was just talking to my cousin who's serving his 2nd duty in Iraq right now. And he sent me this picture. I thought it was really cool. Tell me what you think. And who has family or friends overseas right now? I got one cousin on his 2nd duty. And my other cousin is with Airborne and may be going over soon. Anyway here's the picture.

Forum HW Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 932

I 100% agree. This goes along with a soldier saying, "I protect your the right to protest, i protect your the right to free speech, hell, I protect your right to burn my own damn flag. But please, support me." Orsomething like that.

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protestor to burn the flag."
--Father E. O'Brien, USMC

One of my favorite quotes.

I love that picture.

That pic touched me.
It says things that are so true, yet strike deep.

I need something like this.

Good Idea

with some tears

Glad you like it. Thats my cousins for ya. Its kinda the reason for my name...

*Salutes*

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except the poem isn't quite true for iraq, it's nice.

Last.FM · Forum Sniper Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 696

Well isn't that the damned truth. Good find.

not touching this with a 10 ft pole.

good on your cuz for doing what he thinks is right.

It can be said for any war. Every war they do our dirty work. I don't care if the war is "right" or "wrong." I care for the soldiers who risk their lives for our freedom.

Amen.

In war, there is no black or white.
In everything, there are good and bad that come out of every action.

The soldiers go through hell, and we would never actually know of what it truely is. Movies pretend what they see, to truely know what it is like, you have to be there. What the battlefield is, is something that cannot be described with words or even images, only with emotions of being there.

We should give our uttmost honor and respect to our fighting men and women. They put their lives on the line, to defend what we take for granted. Those who think war is just a thing in history, or makes good entertainment, should be shot. I'm even willing to pull the trigger myself.

People take war as something that doesn't matter. They see it as men and women who go to some land far away to fight for what is right, but the reason may not even be right. Only those who know what it's like, those who were there, ARE THERE, will know what importance they are making, both good and bad. When the outcome of war becomes something that is left in the history books to be forgotten, is when we know that the future is grim, for War is "just another thing".

We at home are nothing compared to the soldiers who risk their living asses to fight in some unfamiliar country. We at home have all but forgotten. We think of it as just another news report, another statistic for the polititians. Our minds are absent of true consideration for those who fight, we think about OUR problems, gas prices, jobs, other meaningless crap like that. We never see see things in a larger light, to see what impact this truely has on us.

I say, I'm kind of mad at those who don't care.
Have they no shame?

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