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What a great article. Thanks for sharing.
American GI’s can be the most potent ambassadors that we have.
I remember my mother teaching me the difference between strangers and friends, lo those many years ago. I remember also that the policeman was always my friend, Mom apparently never having considered I’d live a life of crime or something.
Soldiers seen as angels of grace. American soldiers. In Iraq. After five years.
Think about that, folks. The daily news tell us that unemployment is 6%, stock market is dropping, price of milk is still right up there and let’s not forget the credit crunch…
And here’s a woman wanting only to touch the face of an American trooper she sees as an angel of grace.
To those of us who’ve never seen hardship, never known fear on a daily basis, this should put all of our troubles into perspective.
I reflect upon my grandparents, who saw the dust-bowl days, the Great Depression, living in a car driving from town to town looking for work, surviving. And I look at the current generation, and I kind of wonder what the hell was in the water when they were born.
Trade places with an Iraqui for a few days, you might just find things here aren’t as bad as you thought.
– Max
My son has already had an epiphany. He’s an infantryman deployed overseas and already what he has seen has shocked him as to how well off we Americans are.
Not only our standard of living, but our laws, rights, etc. Just the way we LIVE our lives. He has a new found respect for America and what so many here take for granted.
Thanks for posting this, Lex.
I have to respectfully disagree. I believe the only the MSM would find this “unlikely”.
I’m glad there was a “tissue alert” on that. Breathtaking.
Max – I had the same thoughts as I read it. We take so much for granted here yet someone in Iraq felt fulfilled by touching a soldier. Which I confess would comfort me as well – knowing that they stand between the rest of us and a grim fate.
This kind of story is so very meaningful to all of us, especially when one has children of their own who’ve deployed and are up for yet another deployment. Heart felt thanks and wonder are felt with accounts such as this.
It would be wonderful, indeed, if the focus of the MSM could be on this type of story rather than the bad news with which we’ve all become so accustomed. What can we do to bring about such a change of focus? Perhaps by the persistence of this type of story, simply staying in the face of the negative and emphasizing the positive.
Our sons and daughters are the heroes of today and they deserve to be recognized!
Thanks for the link Lex. The more people that read this, the better.