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Amazing Grace
Posted on 08/25/2005 11:12:03 PM PDT by Sam Hill
Edited on 08/25/2005 11:58:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
My thoughts are with you.
Jet Jaguar
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford:
Today when I was driving back and forth between Camp Casey II and the Crawford Peace House, I saw a lot of signs that say "I'm4W" "Support our Troops" and the one I hate the most: "Freedom isn't Free." I have excerpted an article I wrote a few months ago called: A Lie of Historic Proportions. I am not feeling well tonight, so I am heading to bed before six a.m. tonight.
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Even though correct, the statement "Freedom isn't Free" is very insulting to me. False freedom is very expensive. Fake freedom costs about two billion of our tax dollars a week; phony freedom has cost the Iraqi people tens of thousands of innocent lives; fanciful freedom has meant the destruction of a country and its infrastructure. Tragically, this fabricated notion of freedom and democracy cost me far more than I was willing to pay: the life of my son, Casey. The Lie of Historic Proportions also cost me my peace of mind; I do not feel free and I do not feel like I live in a democracy.
Casey took an oath to protect the US from all enemies "foreign and domestic." He was sent to occupy and die in a foreign country that was no threat to the USA. However, the biggest threat to our safety, humanity, and our way of life in America are George and his cronies. Congress made a Mistake of Historic Proportions and waived its Constitutional responsibility to declare war. It is time for the House to make up for that mistake and introduce a Resolution of Inquiry into the Downing Street Memos.
It is time to put partisan politics behind us to do what is correct for once and reclaim America's humanity. It is time for Congress and the American people to work together in peace and justice to rid our country of the stench of greed, hypocrisy, and unnecessary suffering that permeates our White House and our halls of Congress. It is time to hold someone accountable for the carnage and devastation that has been caused. As a matter of fact, it is past time, but it is not too late.
May Derek's soul rest in peace. He will forever have the thanks of a grateful nation. May God comfort you and grant you peace.
My prayers offered for your son. Please know he has my utmost respect, and I can only imagine your sense of loss. My prayer for you, too.
"I think that less than 1% of the folks posting messages actually know what it is like to lose a loved one in the war..."
So true. Words are inadequate as we attempt to express our sympathy for you.
Those who served with your son share your burden.
After many years, I summoned the courage to find the mother and sister of a young man I served with in Vietnam who did not make it home. I made a pilgrimage to their home in the Ozarks.
I also was put in contact with the daughter of another soldier I served with in Vietnam who was killed. I met her at one of our company reunions. She is now almost 40.
There is not a day that has gone by in all of these years that I have not thought of these men and the others who died in that far away place. I always have tried to imagine their families and how they were holding up.
There are people who are wondering about you also. As I said before they are sharing your burden. If you haven't already, someday you might be able to meet those who served with your son and who knew him. It would be a meeting well worth having.
God Bless you.
Please accept my sympathy. You and your family are in my prayers.
Ahem... 
I had to get to work before I could watch the video. I am speechless. Cindy Sheehan will say whatever she thinks will garner her sympathy and attention.
Please post your replies to debbieargel
debbieargel, My prayers go up for you and your family. God Bless you for your family's sacrifice.
Blessings,
trussell
If you want on/off my prayer ping list, please let me know. All requests happily honored.
Thank God for your son and for you! He is a hero to us!
Please ping me to her picture!!! :)
I stood at The Wall
Trying to picture your face
On that silent Black slab of marble
I remember
That war
And us
When we were there,
I always thought
We would both come home together
Now I am meeting you here
On some giant tombstone wall
Face to face
In the coldness of stone.
The Wall will always
Remember your name
Forever
A fallen warrior
Gone, but never
to be forgotten
I lay my
Tears on your name
And touch the engraved letters
The Wall
Will never forget
And never
Will I
Didn't she abandon her son when he was a child?
I think aliens kidnapped her and used a process on her brain called "Gephardtization."
I still shake my head as to how his OWN MOTHER can so blatantly dishonor him and what he stood (and died) for. Sad. Really sad.
A Pat Tillman-Kind-of-Guy, With a John-Walker-Lindh-parent-kind-of-Mother.
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