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perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,595 ✭✭✭✭✭
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To all our Troops overseas and their families.

I just got word my Girlfriends Son is finally out of Afhganistan safely, he did his 1 year tour as a Combat Engineer. Ironically he was able to take 2 weeks leave this past October and the day he got home he got word that his unit got hit by a group of insergents and a friend of his lost both his legs and another had a near fatal injury but survived. Last week a good friend of mines nephew got hit as well and got numerous bones shattered in his legs and feet but will survive.

God Bless our Troops and Thank You to all who are serving.

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  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,822 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I couldn't have said it better, perkdog.

    God Bless our Troops and Thank You to all who are serving.

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  • piecesofmepiecesofme Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭
    This is an especially sensitive subject for me having lost 2 close friends that I considered to be "family" since '04.
    I understand in part why we need to still be in Afghanistan, but my heart says enough already.
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  • CakesCakes Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>This is an especially sensitive subject for me having lost 2 close friends that I considered to be "family" since '04.
    I understand in part why we need to still be in Afghanistan, but my heart says enough already. >>



    It is scary, my son is a Marine and I am worried that at any moment he could get deployed to Afghanistan.
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  • morbidstevemorbidsteve Posts: 572 ✭✭✭
    I feel you, but the reality is that all of us (im an active Duty Marine, twice to Afghanistan, once to Iraq) signed the papers, and volunteered for the job. I knew full well when I raised my hand that I would go to one or both countries.

    I am sorry for your losses, and thank you for supporting the military!
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, ABSOLUTLEY, I give thanks to all serving and to all that have served.

    THANK YOU

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  • pmcollectourpmcollectour Posts: 1,211 ✭
    They are amazing people
  • mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭
    Glad for him and everyone else who makes it home safe.
    I say a prayer for those who don't make it back.
    Our troops deserve all our support and praise!
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Our troops serve under very difficult conditions.. no uniformed enemy (could be anyone encountered), hostile population even if not 'with' the enemy, and nasty conditions (weather, terrain etc). They deserve all our thanks and support. Cheers, RickO
  • KUCHKUCH Posts: 1,186
    I'm all in to supporting and thanking our military! image
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    I watched the flag pass by one day.
    It fluttered in the breeze.
    A young Marine saluted it,
    And then he stood at ease.
    I looked at him in uniform
    So young, so tall, so proud,
    With hair cut square and eyes alert
    He'd stand out in any crowd.
    I thought how many men like him
    Had fallen through the years.
    How many died on foreign soil?
    How many mothers' tears?
    How many pilots' planes shot down?
    How many died at sea?
    How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
    No, freedom isn't free.

    I heard the sound of taps one night,
    When everything was still
    I listened to the bugler play
    And felt a sudden chill.
    I wondered just how many times
    That taps had meant "Amen,"
    When a flag had draped a coffin
    Of a brother or a friend.
    I thought of all the children,
    Of the mothers and the wives,
    Of fathers, sons and husbands
    With interrupted lives.
    I thought about a graveyard
    At the bottom of the sea
    Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
    No, freedom isn't free.

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