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I will be heading home soon so I probably won't post again for some time. Thanks to all who have supported me through your encouraging words and prayers. A big thanks to everyone who donated to our humanitarian efforts.
If you would like further information on our ongoing Afghanistan humanitarian efforts, please contact me directly. My email address is located under "My Profile" to the right.
If you would like further information on our ongoing Afghanistan humanitarian efforts, please contact me directly. My email address is located under "My Profile" to the right.
A whole new group of soldiers has arrived to take our place. Please don't forget about them or their families. Those soldiers will be here for at least twelve months, and with the recent extension, many will be gone for fifteen months.
FIFTEEN MONTHS.
Think about what that means. Kids will spend over a year without a parent. Some kids will have both parents deployed. Spouses will be without their husband or wife. Many marriages won't survive. One thing is certain. Lives will be changed forever.
Could you handle it? Could your spouse? How would you feel if it was your child, your father, mother, brother or sister? We've even got grandparents serving here.
I can tell you how you'd feel. You'd be worried. You'd take an interest in the people and the politics. You'd count the days until your loved one could come home. You'd voice your opinion.
You'd get involved.
That's the problem as I see it today. Many of us don't know anyone who is deployed. We're not personally invested in the outcome.
Don't just say that you "Support the Troops." What does that really mean? Does it mean thinking about what the troops believe? What they're going through? What their families must endure? Does it mean taking some kind of action in order to influence the outcome?
Or does it mean what the t.v. or talk radio tells you?
I think it means more than sending a card, a care package or placing a yellow ribbon magnet on your bumper. It means getting involved. It means participating in the American political process. It means pushing outside the boundaries of the world that you have created for yourself.
Consider it your duty to follow what is happening and to form your own opinion. That's the least you can do.
But if you really want to support the troops, you must find a way to become personally invested.
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