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>"mike hide" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> At the risk of sounding cheep, lets leave the US contribution as is [350
>> million] and give the family of each serviceman killed in Iraq at least
>> $500,000.....mjh
>>
>>Better yet.........lets get all the service men out of Iraq and send em
>to
>>help out in Tsunami affected areas. At least they'll be welcome there.
Put me down as agreeing with both!!!
And don't confine those dying in Iraq to "combat deaths" but rather any of
our service men/women who have died there . . . if they hadn't been sent
over there, they'd very likely be living happily at home or in a
non-combat zone. At least they wouldn't have died there. I wish there
were some central place where photos and names of all those who have died
there were posted, and I'd like for there to be three photos, a baby
photo, a teen photo, and an adult photo, in addition to their service
photo. It's just too easy for some to brush it off with the idea they are
service people, not like their own children, siblings, and neighbors.
I've heard some pretty moronic remarks about those that are there. Geez.
And, yes, I think our forces would be better serving if helping those who
truly need it *and* appreciate it. But then those countries don't have
anything our current administration wants, do they?
If the world were only half as perfect as we'd like it to be.
I'm wondering how many miles of coastline altogether were overcome with
the water, not as the crow flies but miles if a person were to walk it at
water's edge. This would be interesting information to have; it would
help to better identify just how much of our own coastline(s) would be
affected if those same miles were here. Right now, the death toll is
getting pretty close to the total number of people living in our county.
It's just not even imaginable. The number of homeless must be comparable
with our state's entire population, at at least one side or the other of
the Cascades, again not even imaginable. Can you imagine what the same
wall of water hitting either of our coasts, with no warning, would have
done?
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Glenna
About to go buy some paste wax
and grateful to have that choice
"Glenna Rose" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> [email protected] writes:
> >
> >"mike hide" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:[email protected]...
> >> At the risk of sounding cheep, lets leave the US contribution as is
[350
> >> million] and give the family of each serviceman killed in Iraq at least
> >> $500,000.....mjh
> >>
> >>Better yet.........lets get all the service men out of Iraq and send em
> >to
> >>help out in Tsunami affected areas. At least they'll be welcome there.
>
> Put me down as agreeing with both!!!
>
> And don't confine those dying in Iraq to "combat deaths" but rather any of
> our service men/women who have died there . . . if they hadn't been sent
> over there, they'd very likely be living happily at home or in a
> non-combat zone. At least they wouldn't have died there. I wish there
> were some central place where photos and names of all those who have died
> there were posted, and I'd like for there to be three photos, a baby
> photo, a teen photo, and an adult photo, in addition to their service
> photo. It's just too easy for some to brush it off with the idea they are
> service people, not like their own children, siblings, and neighbors.
> I've heard some pretty moronic remarks about those that are there. Geez.
>
> And, yes, I think our forces would be better serving if helping those who
> truly need it *and* appreciate it. But then those countries don't have
> anything our current administration wants, do they?
Look I am not an American and do not have a political axe to grind . I
suppose you could say the same for the soldiers who served in the
revolutionary war the civil war you name it .
Basically they died serving their country regardless whether you agree with
the policy or not, And I for one appreciate their sacrifice mjh