A Different Christmas Poem
on 12/13/2009 at 05:43 PM
Thanks for that, really brings it home. I have sent it to a few, one, my boss was an Obama lover, one year ago when I started working for her (she did the work over here for my work permit) she askke me about him, I said what I thought, she disagreed so I said I hope you are right and I am wrong, she will not talk about him now, funny that!
Posted by Chris Edwards
12/13/2009 at 05:12 PM
I’ve seen that before (but being so tied to the military, still, I get a lot of the stuff ‘hot off the press’). I will be going personally through it again, as my son is off to Afghanistan in January. This time will be different - as he has a wife and family. I know it will be hard on her, so I am glad that they just moved back to TN, so that she is just a few hours (3 I think) from her mother (and 5 from us).
It is not easy on the families left behind either - the not knowing, the fears - can consume a person, very easily. And you become the one people either get in your face with a ‘you brought this on yourself’ type attitude or the awkward ‘I don’t know what to say, so I’ll look the other way and ignore you attitude’. Which all just makes being alone and scared even worse.
You find that many of the ‘guys’ are more worried about their families than themselves - as they know the fear and uncertainty are eating them up.
It is why I used to enjoy Operation Dear Abby - to get cards from strangers to know that someone in America cared. Thanks to the terrorists and radical idiots - that program and other like it are so hobbled now - and it is people who are stuck far from home alone at the holidays that are hurt because of it. The new national rudeness is not something to be proud of at all, it diminishes us all.
