Friday, May 06, 2005
Good People Doing Brave Things
Despite the fact that our military is subjected to awful religious coercion, they seem to be reenlisting at a pretty steady pace. Here is just one example:
As far as I am conerned, the only thing that needs to be said to people like this is - THANK YOU
In Iraq, there were the days that ran together in a never-ending stream of patrols, mission after mission that left him cursing the superiors who sent him out into the teeth of the insurgency. There were the nights when mortars crashed nearby, close enough to smell the sulfur. And there was the question that went unanswered every time a friend was ripped by shrapnel or cut down in an ambush: Why are we fighting this war?This is not surprising at all. Good people understand that life involves hard things, and really good people are willing to endure those hard things so other people do not have to.
Yet when the time came for Sgt. Jason Waits to decide what he would do when his tour in the Army National Guard ended, he barely paused. Before he even left Iraq, Sergeant Waits reenlisted. And if he is sent back, he "won't have a problem."
As far as I am conerned, the only thing that needs to be said to people like this is - THANK YOU
