The pictures i took from some other website and make no claims to having taken them myself.Iraq, what a horrible place to live. Extreme highs and lows in temperature, sand storms and shitty infrastructure. My brother has been there since February.
Its funny, with all the violence and terror occurring in that native land, i never really worry about any towel heads taking him out. I mean he's my older brother. Something like that cannot happen to me, to us, to this family. Its funny you just can't think like that. You have to assume nothing will happen, otherwise you worry all the time.
No Haji will put an end to his wife's happiness. She toils in loneliness every time he is deployed to defend this country. As a result when he IS home he spends most of his time with his wife. People don't seem to understand the sacrifices made by soldiers who give up their lives to protect this country. I would love to see the pussy totin' liberals I see walking around our campus who complain of recruiters taking advantage of poor minorities volunteer and sign up their life to protect what they take for granted every day.
My brother and his wife have been married for 7 years. You know how much of those 7-years the two of them have spent living together. Three. Three years they have spent together in a house living with one another. Otherwise my brother has been in Virginia, Pensacola, Fl, Meridian Mississippi. When he wasn't training within the united states, he was busy being deployed landing and talking off of air craft carriers all over the world.
Now he sits in a shit hole in Iraq. While i agree that the war in Iraq is bullshit, lets hope that since we are already there something good comes of it. And lets alienate people who put us there but not alienate the military. They are not evil. It is because of the military that we have this country today and it isn't in the hands of the United Kingdom. Our first president was the General of the Continental Army.
While you sit there and bad mouth our service men and call them gullible and stupid for signing up to serve this country, maybe you should get the fuck out!!!...I hear the Canadians are a bunch of pussies, go join them.
I can't put myself in your shoes because I do not have anyone close to me in Iraq or even in the military. I would imagine it is something hard to deal with, not being able to have you brother close by or even more so knowing he is safe.I think you are taking a positive approach and dealing with it the best way you can, by not worrying every single day. Have faith & know your brother is brave for taking on such a difficult task!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. 9 times out of ten the people countering the recruiters and and the war and everything else associated with the military have absolutely no idea what is really going on. Does anybody really know know the whole truth of what is going on? Probably not, but I'm sick, as well, of those who act like they do.
ReplyDeleteI have known a good handful of friends and friends husbands who have been involved in the military, and who have spent their time in Iraq. I am once such liberal who does not agree with this war, but I do have tremendous respect for those who are fighting it! I know I couldnt do it myself. It makes me a bit sad that you have heard people disrespecting the soldiers. It's one thing to bad mouth the politicians/governments choices, but a whole other issue when someone takes aim at the people who are really in the mess of things.
ReplyDeleteand p.s. US Canadians are pretty cool people : )