Sorry to be a Debbie Downer you all, but I have to put this in...

Some may know my feelings on the war in Iraq. If you don't then here goes...I think we went in for the wrong reasons, we were lied to during a time when our country was at it's most emotionally vulnerable. The president (capitalization left out on purpose) misled this country who had been badly wounded out for a blood hunt that was illegal and wrong both on a moral and political level.

However, if anyone out there were to suggest that because I do not support the war I, therefore, must not support the troops they would be sadly mistaken. I was a soldier, though not in a time of war, and served in places that were both dangerous and very far away from home. I can relate to the soldier in the field...away...scared...lonely. I know the feeling of being forgotten, as if life were continuing for everyone else while mine had been put on hold indefinitely. I know the feeling of missing your husband, wife, kids, mother or father so badly that you cannot breathe.

What prompted all this melancholy talk you ask? While surfing the web tonight I came across this site. It is a breath taking and very inhuman listing of the troops who have died for each month we have been in Iraq...click on one of the bars and read the names...remember that these soldiers, airmen, marines and seamen are someones father, brother, mother, sister, child...they were living, loving, human beings just like you and I who chose to serve their country and were sent to fight this war...remember also that these are not all the people who died in this war...there were civilian contractors,Iraqi men, women, and children...

Veterans day is coming in a little over a month and Memorial Day is in the month of May...

Don't Forget