War in Iraq

The soldiers in our armed forces are all volunteers--men and women who volunteered to give up a cozy life of freedom and security in order to help protect people, our country first. Do you support or agree with Bush's policy on the War on Terror? Do you vehemently disagree? Nobody wants to see the new total on FOX News about how many American soldiers died today, or the total number of innocent bystanders murdered by terrorist bombs.

But our soldiers need the support of their people. They are our brothers and sisters, dads and moms, husbands and wives out there serving our country. We don't usually get to read of the positive results of the war, but I have heard stories from friends come back from Iraq who have seen the hope it has given the Iraqi people. Did you hear that? Hope. Change. It is happening.

We also must remember not to become dead to feeling, apathetic. In the words of Henry James to a woman who lost her newly married husband in World War I, "'I am incapable of telling you not to repine and rebel,' he wrote, 'because I have so, to my cost, the imagination of all things, and because I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say--feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live, especialy to live at this terrible pressure, and the only way to honour and celebrate these admirable beings who are our pride and our inspiration.'"

He would continue to urge them to feel because "feeling would stir up empathy that would remind them that life was worth living."

To you who would hate Bush for his decisions to force our soldiers into war, support our troops for their sake.