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Harry Bonar

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I suppose this might get shot down - but this is from an "OLD" smithy.
My heart breaks to see another War. The young men that will die, the innocent men, women and kids tat will be killed or horribly wounded!
Our men fighting in Iraq and Afganistam, dying and wounded.
The problems in our world - they make me weep.
Don't ever call me a coward or a wuss! But I weep over these good men who fight and are willing to do what their hearts tell them they must do.
The rightness of a cause does not remove the horror of combat, the sreams of the wounded and the Hell of a firefight.
Let us who are men humble ourselves and pray that this grinning devil we call war might stop!
Harry Bonar.
 
Harry-
Take this as is from a Marine and someone who grew up in Europe, where they have seen their share of wars over the years. War is unaviodable. It is human nature. It is brutal and ugly and vicious and heartless. But I would rather have the wars overseas in someone else's backyard so it's not our children and women and grandparents being killed, uprooted or maimed by accident. Hard hearted? I guess I am. Merciless? Not for one instant.

I feel for those who go willingly into harm's way, because that is what our society is built upon. Men who will sacrifice their own lives to allow others to live safely. We must fight to eliminate those who will not let us live in peace. One of the great dichotomies of the world.
 
"It is good that war is so horrible; lest we grow too fond of it."
- Robert E Lee

"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the
sooner it will be over."
-William Tecumseh Sherman
 
Kill them, kill them all. - Stonewall Jackson

When asked how to keep the enemy from destroying the town of Fredricksburg.
 
i feel the same way, alot of my friends are being shipped out and some are dying. i would be right there with them if my family didnt depend on me so much. RIP
 
God forbid...

Harry and all -

I am one of those who, a week after my 18th birthday, raised my hand and said "Take me." A month later I was in boot camp. A year and some later I was on my first (of two) "all expense paid vacations" in Southeast Asia. In the early 1970's after I got out I said "God forbid that we should sacrifice another generation of young Americans on the altar of some politician's ego." And yet here we are...

There were no WMDs. There was no Al-Qaida connection (at least then). But there were a lot of patriotic young Americans who answered the call. And there is no end in sight. The longer we were in Vietnam the more VC and NVA there were. The longer we are in the "sandbox" the more insurgents there are.

I am (among a lot of other things) a disabled vet and a registered counselor (with an MSW). I counseled at a vet center for a while - and it breaks my heart to see what these folks have to deal with. And once again I say "God forbid..."

My prayers to the young souls (on both sides) whose lives are forever changed.

Joe
 
I've got to side with Scorch on this one.

War is terrible... would anyone actually argue that it isn't? Do those who (politically) oppose this war actually believe that we who support the efforts of the free world right now actually WANT to see more deaths of our troops and civilians in any part of the world?

World War III has now begun, and the US didn't have a choice in it. It was started by Muslims who are bent on (literally) taking over the world and killing anyone who doesn't agree. They have been "practicing" for over a dozen years before 911 (actually, for centuries), and 911 was the day they felt they could actually "win" by taking out America's economy and causing a domino affect in the free world. It hurt but it didn't succeed.

By the time WWIII is over, the price the US and the rest of the free world will pay will end up being much higher than it is up to this point, but I have yet to hear a definitive answer to the question: How many dollars or lives of brave men is freedom worth? At what point do people of a nation surrender to the will of those who would harm us?
Answer those questions with a specific answer and perhaps we can predict when this war will end.

Carter
 
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I feel the pain. I enlisted and "did my time" and I respect and appreciate all who are doing their best to keep peace in the lands.
Sometimes I feel if those peoples who incite these wars were out there in the middle of the s*** themselves,there wouldn't be so many battles fought.
"Why can't we all just get along" is a nice dream.
As long as there is greed and politics, there will be war.
I salute the brave men and women of the United States who fight to keep the "bad guys" from taking over.
SGT. G.Lewis USAF 1970-1974
 
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