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Name: Annee / Lady Taz
Region: New York
Subject: A mother's love...a soldier's pride...

body: Hello Ladies! For the first time in a while, I'm content. Bush isn't going to tolerate what happened, and like so many of my fellow soldiers, I've been dying to do something affirmative. Also, I refuse to be outdone by my son...I was so touched by his pride in me, that I wanted to share my own with him. It occurred to me after, though, that this probably applies to ALL mothers, doing what they need to for their children, so instead, I want to dedicate it to all mothers, everywhere, no matter what they do for a living...God bless 'em all...

"A Soldier's Pride"

I've chosen a path to follow in life,
That's filled with reward, but also with strife.
It's not always easy, but fills me with pride,
'Though I work every day, to do this on the side.

When I first started, my goal was defined.
I needed the money, so I didn't mind.
One weekend a month, plus two weeks a year,
Was a small price to pay, to be rid of debt's fear.

But, now I embrace it; it's no longer a chore.
My values have changed, it's become so much more.
It's a way to ensure all my dreams for my son.
To make the promise of freedom, a guaranteed one.

I know that he worries, when I go away,
But he never complains, as day follows day.
He tells me how proud he is, knowing it's me,
That's answering the call, so he can be free.

His pride's my salvation, 'cause he's my pride and joy.
No matter how old he gets, he'll be this soldier's little boy.

~ Annee

What is a VET?

You can't tell a vet just by looking.

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating 2 gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.

He is the barroom loudmouth whose frat-boy behavior is out weighed on the cosmic scales by four hours of unparalleled bravery near the 38th Parallel in Korea.

She is the nurse who fought against futility in Da Nang and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years.

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another.

He is the drill instructor who has never seen combat, but has saved countless lives by turning lazy no-accounts into Marines and teaching them to watch each others back.

He is the parade riding legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with prosthetic hand.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the super market aggravatingly slow, who helped liberate a Nazi death camp.

A vet is an ordinary and extraordinary human being.

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.

We will never be able to repay the debt of gratitude we owe.

This was left in our guestbook by Ceana

FLAG-WAVING ISN'T ENOUGH
by DAVID H. HACKWORTH

A 21st-century storm is gathering force and heading toward the dark shores of international terrorism. States that have been providing sanctuary and support for years to the likes of Osama bin Laden and the fanatic fruitcakes who follow him and his sort will soon feel the winds of a new kind of war -- a global conflict that will be fought on two levels: covertly and  unconventionally from the shadows with a trench knife; and overtly with the thunder of our most awesome weapons, clearly foreshadowed by those unmistakable B-52 contrails in the sky.

Even though this hybrid war won't be a quick slam - bam - thank - you - ma'am fix like Desert Storm or as casualty-free as the air war over Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia, have no doubt that we'll win. But be prepared for this conflict to take years and cost all the true grit our nation can muster.

After another surprise attack on our country and our way of life -- Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941 -- we didn't get in our first major blow until mid-'42 at Midway, and it wasn't until '43 that our war machine was really out there punching. But by '44 we were finally on a roll, stomping the enemy around the globe, and by August of '45 we'd won. It was a tough, bloody war with many terrible reversals, but from each setback we learned and grew stronger -- and ever more determined to fight on.

This time around, we're fortunate that President Bush has already fielded a team capable of crafting and delivering a mighty international fist -- leaders like Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and Gen. Hugh Shelton. These "A" players won't ready, fire, aim a few missiles at a vitamin factory in Sudan or a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan and report to the nation "mission accomplished." They'll take the hard road and have the wisdom, patience and endurance to go the distance. 

In the meantime, the media should stop speculating about the campaign. Sure, author Tom Clancy is schoolbook smart. Sure, CNN pundit and retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark has inside sources. But surprise and stealth must become our secret weapons. We need to tune into the World War II slogan: Loose Lips Sink Ships. Everyone on the planet shouldn't be in the loop about every move our commanders and troops are making. Milosevic, for example, got a lot of his intell from "loose lips" the last time around, and we were the worse for it.

What we do need to focus on is doing whatever we can to defang any future terrorist attacks. Now that we're under siege, every citizen must stay minefield alert. Any activity that appears suspicious should be reported at once. There are hundreds of terrorist sleepers out there just waiting to execute an order or implement a plan to: ram a dynamite-loaded boat, truck or small plane into a nuclear reactor; put germs in the water supply, the subway, a crowded auditorium or a building's air-conditioning system; or drive a gasoline tanker into a power grid, oil refinery or a packed football stadium. The target list and the weapons of choice are limited only by the perps' imaginations.

And we must never underestimate our foes again. The fiends we're up against are dedicated fanatics -- often well educated -- who hate our country and what it stands for with every fiber of their twisted souls. They'll continue to go after us as tenaciously as Japan's World War II suicide soldiers, whom we had to burn and blast one by one out of caves from Guadalcanal to Okinawa.

But there are no Romes, Berlins and Tokyos as final objectives here. Sure there are terrorist heads for the taking, but then there's the slow lifting of countless rocks in order to tear out the terrorist tentacles wrapped around our everyday lives.

President Lincoln said at Gettysburg that our "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Once again our very survival is at stake. And real patriotism won't be about waving a flag or singing a song. It will be having the courage and commitment to stay with this war until dawn's early light, even after we're long weary of the slow-going and the sacrifice.

(c) 2001 David H. Hackworth
Distributed by King Features Syndicate Inc.

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Everyone knows we are about to go to war. There has been a lot of flag flying and a lot of people are showing their patriotism which is very reassuring to see. At the same time we are starting to see the other side coming out starting to question the need to go to war, and as we hear from them keep this following thought in mind.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; Nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; Is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, Unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Name: Barbara Stacy
Region: Cali2B
URL: http://www.comuteck.com/watch/index.htm
Subject: Standing the Watch website
body: Hello Kari and my fellow sisters,

I have not posted to Tidbits before but I finally feel I have something to give and share. The events over the past 10 days have certainly been disastrous and a cause of deep concern to say the least. I am sure there are others like myself that have had additional distress placed upon them by having a loved one in the US military. My daughter is in the US Navy and I kept feeling I should do something to honor the daughter I am so proud of and in a way give some support to our selfless loved ones.

In short, I have created a website called "STANDING THE WATCH" in a corner of my husband's site where family of US military active duty personnel my have their loved ones' names, duty assignment, etc. listed as a sign of pride and support if they would like. I am limiting this to the United States Military for the time being but I do have plans to expand to other nations involved in the future.

Please visit the site and consider filling out the submission form on the website. The URL is the one submitted with the Tidbits form.

God bless and keep our brave men and women and us all.
Barbara Stacy

Thank you Tom Blevins!!

 

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