A Response from an Army Wife

Hey this is something that my wife posted on another site the other day, I thought you might enjoy it...


Hey guys , here is the response I wrote to that anti-military post from a military wife whose hubby is getting deployed an dboth he an dshe HATE the War, Bush and all it stands for. She actually said that she was ashamed to stand for the National Anthem or to display a bumper sticker saying she was a proud Army wife! Yep, I went off! In A Christ-like Manner of Course! HaHa! . Thought you'd enjoy!
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Originally Posted by kitty
I didn't know! I know Gisele has been worried about this for quite sometime, but I didn't realize they 'got word'.... Hmmmm Come to Canada! We would love you and look after you!

This makes me ever so sad to read of the ill feelings this military wife has towards her husband's future deployment. I believe that I do have the right to comment on this because my husband has been deployed for 11 months, six of which have been in Iraq. In total he will be gone for 18 months. My husband left not only his pregant wife (at the time), and his 14 month old daughter to go and defend our freedoms, but he left his entire life. He was just finishing up his masters degree and we were preparing to find jobs, relocate and buy a house. But, being the patriot that he is, he left all of this to go and protect not only our freedoms, but the future of freedoms of his two litle girls now 6 months and 2 years. Do we miss him? Heck yeah? Do we wish he was here? You bet! But, that doesn't mean I dont think he should be there! Both he and I know that this IS the place where he needs to be. If everyone just sat back and griped about what this nation does or who we have become, then obviously all we would have is a bunch of complainers. SOME people actually have to go out and make a diffference. Yeah websites, blogs and such are great, but praise God that they do nothing but complain. Truely is this is such an unjust war, then why is it again that Bush is in and we are over there? Oh yeah, it is because the majority of Americans believe that this is where we need to be and they cast their votes in such a way this past November. I am not saying that everyone who lives in this Nation has to agree with the war or that everything in Bush's adminstration is right. I am saying though that if you don't like it fine, but leave those who are giving you that FREEDOM to say so alone! Do you not realize that your freeom of speach is truely not free? If we were to just sit on our haunches here in America and say "we are peace loving people, come and join us...." Do you really think that we would still be a "free, peace loving come and join us nation"??? Hello! Yes a democracy is built on the people voicing thier input to thier goverment to keep it free, but it is also built on defending that freedom!!! Sometimes we have to go outside of our borders to do just that. I am not one for war, but if it means that I can get on a plane with my 6 month old and my 2 yr old and not even think twice about whether or not we will make it there safe. Or if I can look into my childrens future and not have to think...gee...I wonder if another regime will take over before they reach college, and keep them at home simply because they are females??? Then God Bless our soldiers and May the best man truely win!!!!I know that this post will probably tick quite a few of you off, but you know what? I really don't care. I am a PROUD Army National Guard wife and don't care to scream it from the roof tops. I will gladly stand at the sound of our National Anthem being sung or Put a tee-shirt on my kids that says "my daddy is serving in Iraq for you!" Yes, there are those who do not agree, but I am not saying just jumping on the band wagon is what is necessary to be Patriotic. Our Nation was founded on the principles of our God given freedoms. But, this does mean that you should be PROUD of that Nation, which grants you these freedoms, as well as those who are leaving their famlies to go and fight to defend them! And what I have to say to this military wife???? Hun the Canadians are beconing you to them!! I am sorry that you are so ashamed to say that your husband is going overseas. I have no idea why everyoone is acting like these brave young men and women didn't VOLUNTEER to do this? Yes your husband has honorably been seving for the last 20 years, but that was his choice? These guys get to CHOOSE to re-up ever six years? Did he miss the memo that he doesn't have to be in the military if he doesn't want to?
My husband is in the National Guard, which means that we are not supposed to be a "military family." We were doing just fine living our non-military life, but when our Nation called upon him, he was more than willing to go. In fact as soon as 911 happened he was actually on the phone seeking out if he was needed as a voulunteer. Basically in short, these men and women who are volunteering to serve are keeping those of you who are so against the military and this war from being drafted, so again you sould be THANKING them for there service and not knock/belittling thier cause and commander in cheif! Sorry to upset so many of you on this forum, but there was no way I was letting this one be posted without saying...If you hate this county, it's leadership, defense system, and all than it sands for....no one is stopping you from leaving???? What have YOU done today to EARN your freedoms as an American, besides complain and belittle the contributions of others???

A Lighter for Your Security?

That is right, now, we cannot take a lighter on an airplane. Why? You ask. Well, let's just say that it is something that two Democratic Senators thought up to make our lives more secure. So, someone must have tried to make a lighter bomb, right? No. Someone threatened to burn someone to death? No. Unfortunately, this is way that liberals think. They believe that they need to protect us from every possible insecurity. Except for of course border security, letting people carry handguns, and allowing the military to do their jobs without harassment. This would be too risky, but they will take my lighter, besides the fact that a white male has never tried to attack an airline with one. They will take Grandma's crochet hooks, besides the fact that no grandma anywhere has used such hooks to inflict acts of terror. They will force me to take off my children's shoes, even though no Caucasian family has used their children as weapons of terror on a plane. A military family at that! The bottom line is that the Democratic and liberal thinking is to do a lot of menial non-influential things that you can point to in an election year. Hopefully, we will all come to realize that these menial things are merely that. Menial! If these are the policies that we are going to adopt to make us more secure, why in the world do we hire such ignorant people to the Senate and House? I can come up with mundane policy too, but I will never get elected because I am poor, non-influential, and I actually care enough to try and change Washington. So, until we get more people interested in changing Washington, we will get more laws that claim to protect our security, but really don't. May God have mercy on our souls and our constitution.
-Cincinnatus