"Horrible response by Dear Abby..."
I don't know. If those kids talked to some of the wounded at WR, they may learn something. Things like honor, loyalty, sacrifice. They might talk to those soldiers who would go back in a minute to be with their units if they could. That one wounded Sargeant, who had been in Bosnia and Afghanistan, who reupped to go to Iraq. He wanted to be with the younger, less experienced troops. His Humvee gets hit by an IED, his driver killed. He gets to spend a year in WR. He'd go back.
Don't hide these brave heroes because they're injured. Go visit.
I like the advice.
[... Don't hide these brave heroes because they're injured. Go visit. I like the advice...]
I like Abbey's advice as well. Brilliant advice, in fact.
I agree with what you're saying, but those certainly weren't Dear Abby's motives in writing her response.
I like the advice but not the reason given for the advice.
We had half a dozen wounded and/or maimed soldiers in our family ~ never turned anyone off to service ~ did highlight the necessity of good cover, and never, ever, do not even think about climbing on top a rock alongside the Rapido River with the Germans on the banks above.
My youngest is going with his university group to Normandy next month ~ they'll see where his/my cousin was shot out of the sky as he came down to liberate Europe from the Nazis.
He's supposed to do a serious study of the American graveyard and render it into a major drawing.
