snomon1017
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- Mar 6, 2006
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I couldn't agee more !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And if its any testiment to the validity of what we're now doing overseas, I wonder how many people are aware that the military currently has the highest re-enlistment rate of soldiers than at any time in history! Our brave men and women believe strongly in their mission, knowing that their service is serving to ensure the safety of their families.
Over and over I get wounded soldiers who want to get back to their units overseas. They are angry about being evac'd to the states. We just recently sent a company commander back to Iraq, minus one leg. The Army fought to keep him out of combat but he wouldn't have it. Who would have thought about having to go go to court, battling the Army in the legal arena, to be allowed to go into combat?!! A few months ago in the Fort Bragg newspaper, "Paraglide," there was a feature article about a father and son. Not what you'd expect though. They were serving in Iraq as part of the same unit. The father was something like a 20 year vet, company first sargeant and the son was a captain - company commander. The pride that came through in the article, between father and son both, brought me to tears.
I'll tell you something else, despite the utter disgust some of these soldiers feel toward some of our politicians (recall for example the quote "Our soldiers are breaking into people's homes in the middle of the night, terrorizing women and children . . . ref a certain D senator from MA) they are SOOOOOOOOOO appreciative of the support of us americans. They talk about arriving home after a year deployment to cheering people in airports and they have tears in their eyes. They really are heroes and we can't forget it.
And from a psychological perspective, the support that our soldiers get when they return home is therapeutic. No one who hasn't served in combat can understand truly what they go through. Horrible traumas the likes of which no person should ever see. Serving in a combat role changes a person, no matter how strong. But coming home to a warm, supportive, appreciative country really does to help alleviate some of that trauma. If nothing else, it helps to show that they are not fighting for nothing. In years to come, our soldiers will talk about their service with pride, and hopefully not break down to tears at the mear memory of what they experienced.
Over and over I get wounded soldiers who want to get back to their units overseas. They are angry about being evac'd to the states. We just recently sent a company commander back to Iraq, minus one leg. The Army fought to keep him out of combat but he wouldn't have it. Who would have thought about having to go go to court, battling the Army in the legal arena, to be allowed to go into combat?!! A few months ago in the Fort Bragg newspaper, "Paraglide," there was a feature article about a father and son. Not what you'd expect though. They were serving in Iraq as part of the same unit. The father was something like a 20 year vet, company first sargeant and the son was a captain - company commander. The pride that came through in the article, between father and son both, brought me to tears.
I'll tell you something else, despite the utter disgust some of these soldiers feel toward some of our politicians (recall for example the quote "Our soldiers are breaking into people's homes in the middle of the night, terrorizing women and children . . . ref a certain D senator from MA) they are SOOOOOOOOOO appreciative of the support of us americans. They talk about arriving home after a year deployment to cheering people in airports and they have tears in their eyes. They really are heroes and we can't forget it.
And from a psychological perspective, the support that our soldiers get when they return home is therapeutic. No one who hasn't served in combat can understand truly what they go through. Horrible traumas the likes of which no person should ever see. Serving in a combat role changes a person, no matter how strong. But coming home to a warm, supportive, appreciative country really does to help alleviate some of that trauma. If nothing else, it helps to show that they are not fighting for nothing. In years to come, our soldiers will talk about their service with pride, and hopefully not break down to tears at the mear memory of what they experienced.
