Nephew Back From Iraq
Whew! Sorry for the absence for a couple of days. I have picked up a couple of new offices in my transcription business and they're keeping me hopping!
Had a family reception and dinner for my nephew, Sgt. Nathan Baldwin of the 80th Airborne Division. What a fine young man! He is back from his 2nd tour in Iraq, stationed in Fort Bragg now and taking leadership training. They let him come home for a few days and we all got together to see him before he goes back. I was just in awe of him, listening to the stories of securing the areas around the election sites, finding cars with the trunks taken out and filled with explosives (he and his team diffused two of those headed for one of the election sites in December). He said there were enough explosives in those cars to take out the entire polling site. They were tipped off to one of them by an Iraqi man. He told of the U.S. securing the area around schools and hospitals so that contractors could go in and repair and rebuild. He said the civilians always wanted to come up and talk to them, smiling and saying "Hey, American!" in their thick accents. Quite a different story than you hear in the mainstream press most of the time.
One thing that struck me is he didn't complain about *anything*. Not the conditions there, not the 100 lbs. of gear he had to carry around all the time, not the time away from home, nothing. He very firmly believes in what we are doing over there, and is quite willing to go to Iraq as many times as they send him. As I said before, he is a fine young man.
Which makes me even more furious at treasonous Democrats like Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry, to name a few. The things they say and do make things harder for soldiers like Nathan, and I believe more dangerous. They embolden the enemy by making them think that if they just keep it up a little longer, more and more people will come to agree with the lunatics on the Left and we will give up and go home. All they have to do is listen to John Murtha to believe they can win if they just hold on and kill a few more Americans. It's hard to believe that these dumb Democrats don't realize that...which makes it worse that they go ahead and do it anyway. Power and personal gain, that's all they care about. They make me sick.
Had a family reception and dinner for my nephew, Sgt. Nathan Baldwin of the 80th Airborne Division. What a fine young man! He is back from his 2nd tour in Iraq, stationed in Fort Bragg now and taking leadership training. They let him come home for a few days and we all got together to see him before he goes back. I was just in awe of him, listening to the stories of securing the areas around the election sites, finding cars with the trunks taken out and filled with explosives (he and his team diffused two of those headed for one of the election sites in December). He said there were enough explosives in those cars to take out the entire polling site. They were tipped off to one of them by an Iraqi man. He told of the U.S. securing the area around schools and hospitals so that contractors could go in and repair and rebuild. He said the civilians always wanted to come up and talk to them, smiling and saying "Hey, American!" in their thick accents. Quite a different story than you hear in the mainstream press most of the time.
One thing that struck me is he didn't complain about *anything*. Not the conditions there, not the 100 lbs. of gear he had to carry around all the time, not the time away from home, nothing. He very firmly believes in what we are doing over there, and is quite willing to go to Iraq as many times as they send him. As I said before, he is a fine young man.
Which makes me even more furious at treasonous Democrats like Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry, to name a few. The things they say and do make things harder for soldiers like Nathan, and I believe more dangerous. They embolden the enemy by making them think that if they just keep it up a little longer, more and more people will come to agree with the lunatics on the Left and we will give up and go home. All they have to do is listen to John Murtha to believe they can win if they just hold on and kill a few more Americans. It's hard to believe that these dumb Democrats don't realize that...which makes it worse that they go ahead and do it anyway. Power and personal gain, that's all they care about. They make me sick.
posted by Jennifer at 3:26 AM
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