As I really see who the REAL Americans are on here, I don't see many. Maybe this shouldn't go here, maybe I should just give up or quit, or otherwise leave it alone. However, I cannot do that, it has been brought to my attention that some of you don't want to repost bulletins that envolve anything to do with the Troops, and frankly...that saddens me. It amazes me how self absorbed some people really are, while they put on the face that they actually care. Ya know, there are very few people that actually do care. You all seem to lavish the freedoms that you have, and then you have no damn idea the prices paid for that very freedom. If you want to take me off your list, then do so, tell me that you did, and I will take you off of mine as well. Because I have had it with the self absorbed people. You don't want to deal with it? It's too hard for you, GET OVER IT. These soldiers that have paid the price deserve YOUR respect, and if you can't take 3 minutes out of your self absorbed life, and repost a simple bulletin that contains something that has to do with the Troops, then you in my book should take a fucking trip to Iraq, pick up a fucking weapon, and man a fucking post. Allow a soldier that gave up EVERYTHING to come home and spend 2 weeks with his family, the family that he left to pay for your freedom. I don't give a fuck who you are, if you don't like what you see when you look in the mirror, then don't look, but I'll be damned if you're going to treat these soldiers like that. Most of you will never know what it's like in a FOB, or to be placed in a forward position, let alone be shot at, no you live in a nation that has laws, and has standards that are upheld. You want to say 'oh I don't care', or 'I see enough of it on the TV' bullshit, that's not good enough, you need to be the wife of that soldier that is waiting to hear form her soldier, or think of your kids as the kids that are awaiting to hear from their daddy, or those families that are missing a part of their familes because they have sadly paid the price for your freedom. My 6 year old neice asked me the other night, "Uncle Matt, when's daddy coming home?" I was a deer in the headlights, I didn't know what to say, a 6 year old that waits to talk to her daddy on line, that web cams with him, that just wants him to chase the bad monster away from the closet at night, she wants to be held by daddy, but most of knows that freedom doesn't come without a price. I cry everytime I talk to her, I cry because I know there's nothing I can do or say to make it better. It pisses me off, it hurts, but most of all, it makes me proud that a 6 year old little girl would take the time out of her day playing with dolls and such to say, 'it'll be okay uncle matt, he's going to be okay.' Talk about ripping your heart out, that'll do it, because when you are sitting there crying and it takes the words of a 6 year old to make you feel better, you know something is wrong with the world. But if none of these words that I have said effects you, then just leave it be, and we'll be bygones, if these words have impacted you in some way, or made you stop and think about things, then maybe just maybe I have done my job, and shown you that it's not all abouts and rank, it's not all about if your friend will get points from this....it's about doing what's right, and paying your debt to those that have made the payment in advance for you. Take it or leave it, by one thing is for sure...you can't deny it.
