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Good for you, indeed!

ANYTIME we see a soldier, we must congratulate them, buy their meals for them, make them feel appreciated and welcome. We must not let the nation-hating Left brand the defenders of the nation with guilt and hate, as they did after the VietNam War.

Yep...we must as a nation never again break faith
with our young men and women who put their lives
and their futures on the line for our protection...
Never Again Break Faith With Our Troops

A month ago I had my kids up in the hills to go sledding. We were having lunch at McDonalds and a busload of army troops walked in. (And no - I didn't buy them lunch!). I was talking to my kids about them, that they were probably on their way to training, etc. My 6-year old daughter asked if they we're good army men or bad army men.

I said, "well, they are away from their families for a long time, do lots of hard work, and risk getting hurt or killed so that we can live in a country where we can have freedom to do what we want - like going sledding - do you think they are good or bad?" - (she said good!).

She (and my other 2) then wanted to go talk to them. We talked with a few of them - they were up from California to train with their tanks (M1A1's) and then on to Iraq for up to a year. That took me aback slightly, as I get so used to seeing neighbors go for their training, seeing the training convoys during the summer - but these guys were getting ready to fight. I told them thank you for your service, good luck and God bless you, and we'll keep you in our prayers.

And we do keep them in our nightly prayers (along with "the people in the airplanes and the people in the buildings that died").