Here’s a series of posts from Celestial Junk … talking war:
I posted the following essay by Sgt. Eddie Jeffers several months ago. I reposted it again last week … why? … because Sgt. Jeffers was killed in Iraq:
I stare out into the darkness from my post, and I watch the city burn to the ground. I smell the familiar smells, I walk through the familiar rubble, and I look at the frightened faces that watch me pass down the streets of their neighborhoods. My nerves hardly rest; my hands are steady on a device that has been given to me from my government for the purpose of taking the lives of others …
We did Band of Mothers as well … it’s about the anti-Sheehan movement:
As I watched Cindy Sheehan and her misguided bunch in Crawford, Texas, she ignited in this mother my “protective instincts.” I raised three children myself and well, let’s just say “nobody ever messed with my kids!” I do not believe there is a force in this world stronger than a mother’s instinct to protect her children.
Then there’s the news … or lack of it:
What’s with this? Just this spring I could look forward to headlines like “Up to 200 Killed in Baghdad Bombs” … or, “Violence in Iraq Up Despite Surge” or, how about items like “Civilian Toll in Iraq May Top 1M”. You’d think Iraq dropped off the map; you’d think that just like that, over night, the quagmire had disappeared. And worst of all … I mean worst of all, is this crap about Ramadi … oh Puhlease, as if.
Put your links to The War in the comments … Islamic Terrorism; Iraq; Afghanistan; and of course our favorite dandy … Citoyen Dion.
May I suggest starting at The Torch or Mudville Gazette for great bits and pieces.
Audio of Steady Eddie Greenspon (whom I have taken to task) doing a number on Citoyen Dion about Afstan at the latter’s meeting with the Globe’s editorial board:
Mark
Ottawa
That is quite the discussion, Mark. Thanks for the link. Does Dion have the wherewithal to even check into the facts about our Canadian military activities? According to this interview he prefers the dramatic cliche’s to the truth.
Rest In Peace, SGT Eddie Jeffers.
Thank You.
Your valour and courage will live forever.
I can’t even read it. It is far easier to exist when you distance yourself from the lives of those who have fallen, even though the memory of their lives are important.
May the young man sleep soundly until his resurrection in Christ.