our troops

this article is from www.newtoncitizen.com
i am unfamiliar with the site as it was just sent to me today. so if its pretty radical, email aaron at whattheheckareyousendingusto@yahoo.com

i plan to peruse it more. who knows, you could see it in "good times".

4/19/2008 12:01:00 AM Email this article • Print this article
Darrell Huckaby -
Encounter with young family puts things in perspective
Darrell Huckaby
Columnist


**disclaimer**
before i post, let me begin by saying i had the entire article posted here, but then my better(?) half said it was too long and to just put the link, so i'm trusting you have read the article and gotten a little watery eyed too. . . .

now, in the words of dj lance, let's break this down.

of course, the first thing you may note is the wearing of a texas a&m hat and the greatness of that. while a very important detail, not the meat of this post.
it is more like the cheese. you know how a good burger is just that, a good burger, but with cheese, ala wingfield's, jg's, or chris madrid's, the cheese only adds-never subtracts!

okay, here's where the story really got to me. this guy is class of 2003....let's say he was on the traditional plan, not my plan, and actually graduated in 4 years. assuming he was in the corp, i'm sure he did.
point being he is 27~ maybe with 2 small children, a wife and 2 tours under his belt.

here's my bit. these are real people going overseas. someones' daddy. someone's mommy. someone's brother. etc. . . . whatever you may think of our president, whatever you may think of war or whatever you may think of our involvment "over there", please support the men and women who are over there. i mean personally support them. that support could mean literally sending necessities overseas. it could mean being a friend to a wife, husband, mother, father or child who has a loved one over there. you could simply say "thank you for what you do for our country" whenever you see someone in uniform. or you could just pray for them, for our leaders and for the leaders of other countries who make those decisions.

its very easy to distance ourselves from things that don't occur in our own sphere of influence. trust me, i am the queen of distancing. but, like mr. huckaby says,
" i don't know what kind of mood you are in today or what you have on your plate, but I know that each and every one of us can breathe free because there are about a million-and-a-half men and women in uniform scattered across our country and around the globe, making sure that we are as safe as we can be in a world gone crazy.

God bless them one and all."