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Despite your feelings about the war please keep all our men and women
serving in our Armed Forces in your prayers

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The war, along with the people who deliberately lied us into it and are
now profiting from it is crap.

Everyone within the borders of the US has benefited from the war, currenlty
being hotly contested in Afganistan and Iraq.

The young men and women who do their duty there
are heroic. Each one killed, wounded, or separated
on multiple extended tours from home and family is a national tragedy.

It is a personal tradgedy for each family and a sacrifice to the greater
good of the US.

For the first ten years of my life my father, a naval officer, was at home,
ship in port or on shore duty, for of those years four years. Most of this
was prior to to Vietnam. Was this a national tragedy?

Screw the war, but honor the troops. It is possible to do both at once.

No, you can't do both at the same time. It is demoralizing to the men and
women fighting the war.

People who feel that we must despise the troops because they are forced
to serve in a bogus war as well as people who feel that we cannot
respect and value the troops without cheering for the
war itself are all wrong.

If you believe that the war is wrong then you must also believe that the
troops serving in that war are wrong.