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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doug R who wrote (47631)	5/21/2005 11:04:17 AM
From: 10K a day	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

i don't think they were joking....when a tank shoots at you they aren't playing around...

To: Doug R who wrote (47631)	5/21/2005 11:28:02 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

I am America! A soldier shares a recent experience that put her place in this war into focus: "Something happened to me that I'd like to share. I've always been a patriotic person. I've always loved my country and I enjoy serving it. My mom and dad taught me, by example, to honor the American flag and to pray for our country. When people sing the Star Spangled Banner, I've always gotten that chill of pride down my back. In the past when I have said or have heard other people say, "God bless America", to me America was a place I cansidered home. God bless America meant, God bless the place that I live and the military that protects me and the government that makes me free. As of yesterday, that has changed for me. My unit has picked up NATO soldiers at hospitals here in Kosovo that in the states we would consider condemned. Hospitals where there are no pillows, blankets, or sheets and wires are hanging from the cieling and there are holes in the floors. When we arrive the NATO soldiers always look up at us with gratitude in their eyes and say thank God please get me out of here. Yesterday I did a Med Cap in town. I was giving out medications to over 200 people and being very buisy when one old woman grabbed my arm demanding my attention and stoping me from working. She held my hand with one of hers and with her other hand she patted my cheek. For a moment in my own self righteousness I shuddered from her touch. All I could think about was the filth and the stench of the woman and what she could be transmitting to me by touching me. But then she began saying something in Albanian over and over again. I turned to ask my interpreter what she was saying and he told me that she was saying, "God bless America, God bless America, thats all I can say is God bless America." I was too busy to think about it just then but last night I couldn't sleep and I couldn't stop thinking about it. I realize now that with that old womans touch the only thing she gave to me was a gift I will never forget. She let me know that when I think that America (home) is thousands of miles away, to her it is right here, in me. I AM AMERICA! To the rest of the world it is not a place. In their time of need, it is the representation of what we believe. We are one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for ALL! So now when I have a moment of homesickness wondering why I am here and why the US doesn't let us come home and stop worrying about the rest of the world. I will remember that old woman. She gave me a sense of purpose and taught me a wonderful lesson, and it could not have been more appropriate than now, this close to Veterans Day. If I didn't share this story with all of you I just wouldn't have felt right. I made a deep impact on me. Please pray for all of those people who are deployed and also pray for the people in those countries who's lives have been destroyed by war. We are all Gods people." Amen. marinecorpsmoms.com