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06/09/2003
From: Jeffrey McKenzie
Date: Mon Jun 9, 2003 9:05 pm
Subject: Jerem's back home.!
Jeremy touched down in Georgia around 6:30pm, after about 38 hours of flight and bus trips. He sounds really good and glad to be back home with his wife, Nicole. I will not see him until later this month, when Nicole and Jeremy come north for vacation.
So while Jeremy is back home (for now), let us not forget the 146,000 other young men and women still left in Iraq, or the several thousand still in Afghanistan. Plus, others that are scattered around the globe, since the U.S. has a military presense in around 140 countries.
Another father, himself a Vietnam vet, said "support our troops," I recommend that we adopt "Protect the Troops" as our slogan; protect them from greed, protect them from a government who forgets them after they have left the military, protect them from the physical pain of combat, protect them from being used as a tool for global domination and oppression."
An Army mom shares, "Tears stream down my cheeks as I think of the many—far too many—mothers who will spend their first Mother's Day in deeper agony than I can comprehend. Before the war began, my own sleepless nights began in horrid anticipation of the fact that very soon, mothers and fathers around the world would have their most precious children taken from them." I will add, let us never forget the effects U.S. foreign policy has and has had, on the lives of innocent people around the globe, it is out of their suffering that terrorism is bred.
A dad in Florida says, "the overwhelming support for Bush and this war is the result of ignorance on the part of the American people…how much support would have been forthcoming if Bush had made a national television appearance and said, `Iraq was not involved in the 9/11 attacks; while they may have some weapons of mass destruction, they are not an imminent threat to the security of the United States. Nonetheless, for reasons I do not care to share with you, the citizens of this country, I have ordered an invasion of Iraq to take place forthwith."
Each of us is responsible in some small way for the past, the present and the future. We can not change the past but we can learn from it. We can be a positive or a negative force in the present causing ripples which will shape the future. Please be a positive force for global peace.
I want to thank all of you for your love, the prayers, the warm thoughts and encouragement, the emails and the phone calls.
In love and peace, Jeff
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