"My heart finally broke for the Iraqi people. I wanted to just sit down and cry while saying I'm so, so sorry for what we had done. I had the acute sense that we had failed these people. It was at this time, and after an entire year of being deployed and well into the next deployment that I realized something. We burst into homes, frighten the hell out of families, and destroy their homes looking for an elusive enemy. We do this out of fear of the unseen and attempt to compensate for our inability to capture insurgents by swatting mosquitoes with a sledge-hammer in glass houses."
Iraq through a soldier's death
By Kyle Spector
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007
Four days before his death, Army Staff Sgt. Darrell Ray Griffin Jr., an infantry squad leader in Baghdad, sent an E-mail to his wife, Diana. "Spartan women of Greece used to tell their husbands, before they went into battle, to come back with their shields or laying on them, dying honorably in battle. But if they did not return with their shield, this showed that they ran away from the battle. Cowardice was not a Spartan virtue ... Tell me that you love me the same by me coming back with my shield or on it."
A few days later, Diana replied. "Are you ok??? I haven't heard from you since Sunday and it is now Wednesday ... I know you said you were going on a dangerous mission ... I get so nervous when I don't hear from you ... phone call or e-mail ... I just hope and pray your ok honey ... "
It was an E-mail Griffin would never read.
E-Mails Reveal a Fallen Soldier's Story
By Alex Kingsbury
Posted 5/13/07
The Best Show
of
Support for our Soldiers
is
HAVING THEM THERE FOR THE RIGHT REASONS
Showing Respect for Commander in Chief of the Military
The PRESIDENT
Showing Respect for Congress Doing It's Job
DEBATING the ISSUES
Accepting Responsibility for the Consequences of our Governments Actions
GOOD CITIZEN
(past, present, and future}
Not
Confusing Stubborn Pride
with
PATRIOTISM
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