Tommy

Well I am back again. I really should be in bed sleeping but I just finished up spending the whole night talking with my friend Tommy. Tommy is a former United States Marine, and recently left the Marines in favor of a safer quieter life here at home. Tommy didn't leave because he was afraid, or because he no longer believes in the cause, he said he left because he couldn't pack up the belongings of any more dead Marines. He didn't have it left in him to do it anymore, and the government is not letting our boys fight this war to win it. I know what he means, we send them over there, all of us, waving our flags, and shouting about "taking those bastards out", but as soon as the bodies start to pile up we scream "get them out, what are we doing there?". Tommy is just a good guy that was fighting to secure freedoms for people who want to be free. That is what we are doing there! I hear all the time, people saying "They do not want us there.", I ask, who is THEY? Because I gather from what I have heard from almost everyone I know that has been fighting this war, that the majority of Iraqis and Afghanis (Yes people we are still in Afghanistan) do want what our boys are trying to help them achieve. It is the few, which seem to be many, because they are so violent and outspoken, that do not want the freedom we offer. You need to ask yourself, why would they not want freedom. The answer is simple, they are already free to do what they want to do, they want others to be under their control. We must fight that voice that tells us that we need to run away from this fight. It is not the men and the women who are doing the fighting that want to run. They want to finish their mission, to bring freedom to an entire nation or nations. It is the politicians here at home, who are safe in their beds, and concerned about the next poll that will not allow them to do the job they were sent there to do. We have the bravest and best equipped fighting force in the world, but we do not equip them. We send them to fight in substandard vehicles, when we have available the means to make them safer. We have men who know nothing of the strategies of war deciding the future of our forces. Pull your heads out of your backsides America, and demand that your elected leaders give them what they need to succeed. I have to go to sleep now, so I will end with this. Tommy, and all the other men and women who are in uniform or ever have been...Thank You.