Patriots
From a precious soldier overseas:
The next day there was a Fallen Comrade ceremony. We all lined Disney Road as three American Flag draped caskets were driven past on the way to the air field. I cried again. And it made me think as well. While the Taliban was not the The Third Reich, they were a tyrannical regime using their power to force their view of reality on others. They killed, tortured and oppressed, and if they had the chance, they would do it again. Actually, they still are doing it, just on a smaller scale. My job is to help reduce that scale until it doesn't exist.
Wednesday, they had a Holocaust Memorial display and ceremony. There were so many sad pictures, so many vulnerable people who suffered and died. I confess, I thought about walking out, because I knew it would make me cry. I didn't and it did.
The next day there was a Fallen Comrade ceremony. We all lined Disney Road as three American Flag draped caskets were driven past on the way to the air field. I cried again. And it made me think as well. While the Taliban was not the The Third Reich, they were a tyrannical regime using their power to force their view of reality on others. They killed, tortured and oppressed, and if they had the chance, they would do it again. Actually, they still are doing it, just on a smaller scale. My job is to help reduce that scale until it doesn't exist.
We keep the battle here. While they focus on fighting us here, they aren't focusing on attacking our homes. We stop them here. When we stop them here, then Afghan homes are safe too. So, even though it seems a monumental and less than easy task, and even though I, individually, may not get the chance to make a big difference, I'm glad I get the chance to stand in the way of tyrants.
My response:
My response:
We are so proud of your patriotism and commitment and sacrifice. It is good that you are a strong, tough soldier with a caring, sensitive heart. What you and others are doing is SO necessary!
You have spoken much truth, but not all of it. Sadly, there have been times, and times now are that those in authority in this country have used similar or the same tactics as our enemies in dealing with those not yet proven guilty of any crime.
We must be ever vigilant to protect the freedoms of the weakest among us lest those liberties be silently taken because precedent has been set with the disenfranchised, the immigrant, the perceived enemy who we now torture, imprison, kill and rob under cover of those high in power who delegate also to some who are without conscience.
At all levels, we must fight for freedom and fight with honor. We must also remember not all wars are fought in the battlefield. The wars I speak of now will be won in the polling booth, in voicing our cries for Constitutional freedoms to our congressmen and local officials... and in prayer for our nation, its leaders, our troops and the world at large.
Again I suggest a one minute prayer time. It is happening across the nation and in foreign lands as well. Each evening at 9:00 PM Eastern Time (8:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Pacific), stop whatever you are doing and spend one minute praying for the safety of the United States, our troops, our citizens, for peace in the world, the up-coming election, that the Bible will remain the basis for the laws governing our land and that Christianity will grow in the U.S.
Thank you again for your courage and sacrifice.
And my day was like this...
You have spoken much truth, but not all of it. Sadly, there have been times, and times now are that those in authority in this country have used similar or the same tactics as our enemies in dealing with those not yet proven guilty of any crime.
We must be ever vigilant to protect the freedoms of the weakest among us lest those liberties be silently taken because precedent has been set with the disenfranchised, the immigrant, the perceived enemy who we now torture, imprison, kill and rob under cover of those high in power who delegate also to some who are without conscience.
At all levels, we must fight for freedom and fight with honor. We must also remember not all wars are fought in the battlefield. The wars I speak of now will be won in the polling booth, in voicing our cries for Constitutional freedoms to our congressmen and local officials... and in prayer for our nation, its leaders, our troops and the world at large.
Again I suggest a one minute prayer time. It is happening across the nation and in foreign lands as well. Each evening at 9:00 PM Eastern Time (8:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Pacific), stop whatever you are doing and spend one minute praying for the safety of the United States, our troops, our citizens, for peace in the world, the up-coming election, that the Bible will remain the basis for the laws governing our land and that Christianity will grow in the U.S.
Thank you again for your courage and sacrifice.
And my day was like this...
- 10:00 Cleaning bathrooms. Tia's cioming! Our cats like the sinks, no cat hair in sinks now!
- 11:44 @cybrgrl My desktop, garage, and life are like that, cluttered through years of procrastination ;-) Too many partially done projects.
- 12:42 Lunch with the Lord... reading my Bible, talking things over with Jesus.
- 14:28 Running the Vacuum. Then I'll freshen up and head out. Big evening ahead. Meeting Tia's plane and then whatever...
© 2006 by Iona Hoeppner
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