THE TROOPS' STUFF IS BUMPER STICKER DEEP"
"As much as we have worked hard to try to help our troops feel appreciated and supported while deployed overseas, we're not doing enough! Too many of our troops feel that Americans don't care about the mission or the men and women sacrificing for it!
"We're bored with it," said Matthew Farwell, who served in the U.S. Army for five years including 16 months in eastern Afghanistan, where he sometimes received letters from grade school students addressed to the brave Marines in Iraq — the wrong war.
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We all laugh about how no one really cares," he said. "All the 'support the troops' stuff is bumper sticker deep." - NBC 8/22/2012
Never before in our nation's history have we as a nation put almost 12 years of time, effort, money, and most precious of all, American lives lost, into an effort like this conflict in Afghanistan. And yet, here today, we've lost the energy and fervor with which we supported our troops before. They noticed.
We must do better. We can't let this be OUR legacy as a generation. When this war began, and the anti-war protesters took to the streets, we stood by our troops, we got our American flags out and rallied to support the troops in the streets because we wanted to show the world that this would not be a repeat of the shameful way Americans treated their troops during Vietnam.
We didn't want the War on Terror to end up being a repeat of that sad chapter in American history. Now we're in danger of allowing that to happen to our troops in Afghanistan. We must show our support to correct this trend immediately!" -
Minerva G. Newton
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| Maitrieya Jessie Lotus shooting a gun in the woods. |
"IT'S SHAMEFUL the way we treat them, it really is....That's why I posted Slash doing CIVAL WAR ....they are treated like a "human grocery store".... Tell it. We had to petition the so called public servants to clean up the mess at Ft. Bragg....our fighting men living in deplorable conditions WHEN THEY GOT HOME to base. I call on these polititans to remember that these men have the same hopes and dreams and loves that they do, and deserve at least what a lower middle class person would have in their own homes. Maybe the private sector could go in and sponsor a row of these soldiers homes for renovation....Good letter... THANKS for sharing." -
Pamela Pickens Underwood
"So true what you say. For sure they do have the same dreams that we all do. It is certainly a shame they way they get treated after they get home.
Here in Florida at least they are building some homes for those that come home after being hurt. It is not everywhere but in certain towns.
A note, this past week a soldier was seen looking at where his house is being built. This soldier lost his leg in the war. His spirits were high. knowing that he was being appreciated by getting this new home.
Love you Pam, my sweetie, blessed be, Minerva♥"
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| Minerva G. Newton |
Bori, as you know words like this hurt my ears and heart. Sometimes I wish I didn't know so much about the contradictions and history of your concerns. It is the Mother's Heart speaking here. That sound is hardest on the senses of right and wrong, but this culture does not respect it, and somehow claims not to hear it. Countless young men are brought into a life of crime, and each learns not to regard, hear, or acknowledge their own Mother's Heart Songs. Their actions show it. It is the same for soldiers.
Our country's leaders put it out there early in the invasion of Iraq. They made it very clear Mother's Heart Songs had no validity in their decision-making process. Remember the woman who camped out in front of Camp David, the silent Code Pink protests in front of the House? There were many women in black walking near the White House in silent protest with their Mother's Heart Songs clear and in the air. Nothing. Soldiers intuit this things, and the most sensitive ones I am sure have spoken on it, but the military culture does not give credence to those sentiments. It is a cold hard fact of life. But those songs have to fill the air. They have to be sung. Balance has to come into existence, and it will be birthed into this madness someday. The songs of Mother's Hearts has that Medicine.
I hear the songs in your words, Minerva. I hear them. I read these words yesterday, and tried to shut them out of my head, but I couldn't. It is morning here, and the first thing I did was write these words before I began my prayers for a new day. I love you, and encourage you to sing those songs in your words. - Gregory
