Hey Ruth,
I just got an e-mail from a woman I used to work with…. She told me she doesn’t know how to feel because her son is being sent back to Iraq next month. She said the closer they get to the date her son has to leave, the worse she gets. I sent her an e-mail that I didn’t know what to say to her except that I would pray for her son and her family. However, I am angry.
I have always been in favor of the movie “The Dirty Dozen” in letting criminals give back to society by serving on the frontline in war time. We have jails full of able bodied men that could be trained to fight as a way to pay back to the community what they took away. There are young men doing nothing and killing each other off in stupid gang warfare and they could just as well as do it elsewhere. There’s got to be a better way.
Well, folks, how do you ring in on this? Any feelings one way or another? What would you do if you were in charge? Let us know where you stand, if you can. Have you changed your mind or still feel about the same as always?
I knew that God was there with me that night listening to every word. Then I visualized a white bubble of light surrounding the area where he and his men were stationed in Mosel and also white light surrounding his body whenever he had to travel on maneuvers while doing his job. That was the same night I stopped crying and fretting and lamenting to others about my son, and started several prayer chains instead. I decided to have faith.
He came home totally unscathed in any way and he never had to take a life. We were definitely blessed by God.
Ps. I would not like having criminals mixed in with our sons and daughters in the armed forces. It just doesn’t feel right to me. And I think we need to get the troops home as quickly as possible. K