Letters To Soldiers...

[Bronzesnake]

 I started this thread at the suggestion of Pastor Roger.
Write your letters to the soldiers here and he will pass them along.

Bronzesnake

[Bronzesnake]

 Hello my friend.

 My name is John, and I live in Canada with my wife, three teenaged sons, and our foster daughter. You might get the impression that Canadians are not too thrilled about the action in Iraq, and if you go by our news organizations and political "leaders"   , you could get the impression that Canadians as a whole, don't support you troops.

 Sadly, that is probably true of our Liberal, and N.D.P. government weasels. However, they don't have a clue at the best of times, and I want to let you know that the great majority of the folks I know, and people I speak to, are supporters of this action, and are grateful that brave men and women such as yourself, put your lives on the line in order to keep us all safer, and also to give the Iraqi people a real chance to realize a free democratic life for the first time in many of their lives.

 God bless you all my friend!!!! Thank you for your sacrifices. Please pass this along to your fellow heroes!



John C.
Keswick, Ontario
Canada

[John 3:16]

Hello my friend.

 My name is John, and I live in Canada with my wife, three teenaged sons, and our foster daughter. You might get the impression that Canadians are not too thrilled about the action in Iraq, and if you go by our news organizations and political "leaders"   , you could get the impression that Canadians as a whole, don't support you troops.

 Sadly, that is probably true of our Liberal, and N.D.P. government weasels. However, they don't have a clue at the best of times, and I want to let you know that the great majority of the folks I know, and people I speak to, are supporters of this action, and are grateful that brave men and women such as yourself, put your lives on the line in order to keep us all safer, and also to give the Iraqi people a real chance to realize a free democratic life for the first time in many of their lives.

 God bless you all my friend!!!! Thank you for your sacrifices. Please pass this along to your fellow heroes!



John C.
Keswick, Ontario
Canada

wow john i am so glad to hear this thanks very much 4 shareing it we me i was in the us,army nation guards for 2 years now i got freinds and family members over and have 1 freind that is a P.O.W  so i support our troops and P.O.W 110% May God Bring em home safe every last one

[Bronzesnake]

You're are so welcome my brother!

Bronzesnake

[Bronzesnake]

 What's up folks??!!!

Get writing your letters to the troops!!!
Once a bunch accumulate, Pastor Roger will pass them along to the troops...so pull the lead out!
 

Bronzesnake

[Bronzesnake]

 

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[SelahJoy]

Bronzesnake

Well, Now I've found this page and I'm crying and this is not a moment for me to pull out a little face cuz this is serious.  There are men, women, and children dying in the war and I for one am touched to see someone opened this thread.

It just so happens that in 2002, the Lord put it upon my heart to pray for the soldiers and the people of Iraq.  When I got obedient and faithful in prayer, email contacts with people over there have grown.  I need contact with other Christians on this matter because the burdens have touched my soul to the core.  There are questions, prayer requests, and issues coming my way via email.  (I know God is with me, but I need you too.)  

So, having said that, I'm gonna go and let my emotions calm down and then I'll come back and write to our beloved troops.

Before taking a break, I want to simply say to the troops, the Lord your God is with you, so be strong and of good courage.
I send you my love, in Jesus, and in prayer,

selahjoy*

[JudgeNot]

Dear American Hero,  
We miss you back here stateside.  You are constantly on our minds and in our prayers.  Your job is an important one, and America is blessed to have sons and daughters as brave, honorable and self-sacrificing as you.  You are America’s most valuable commodity.  

Few countries have what America is blessed with:  
When was the last time Mexico sent volunteers to free an oppressed people?
When did Switzerland ever have sons and daughters in harm’s way in the name of decency?
What has India sacrificed to assure free societies in the far reaches of the world?
Have the French ever cared about anything beyond their country’s own interests?

American heroes like you are the product of a society that believes ‘all people are created equal’, and your sacrifices do not go unnoticed.  Your families, your friends and your countrymen all rest easier knowing you are on the job.  Your enemies tremble in fear knowing you are on the job.  God loves you knowing you are on the job.  

Keep your heads down and your spirits up.  May our Lord Jesus Christ bless you and bring you safely home to us (U.S.).  

Respectfully,
James Davis
Concord, CA

[JudgeNot]

And to the families of those soldiers...

The Cost of the War on Terrorism
By Ben Stein
Published 6/6/2005 12:09:07 AM

On the Saturday night before Memorial Day, the cost of the war on terrorism were wearing red T-shirts. They were in a small ballroom on the second floor of the Crystal City Doubletree Hotel in Northern Virginia, within sight of the Pentagon.

There were about 250 of them. Children of men and women who had been killed in the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and in training. They were maybe from age five to fifteen. They were handsome. They were pretty. They were cute. They had haunted eyes, some of them, and some of them cried. One family had five kids, and the oldest, a beautiful 15-year-old girl, could not stop crying.

They were being watched over by about thirty mentors, who were good-looking men and women from the Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Army Honor Guard at Arlington National Cemetery. They serve as mentors and guides for the kids as the kids mourn their loss.

The kids had just gotten back from a field trip and were in a giddy, but still haunted mood, as they ate pizza. I spoke to them, hugged them, smeared my tears away as I could. I told them how pretty they were if they were girls and how brave and handsome they looked if they were boys.

A spectacularly cute little red-headed girl named Dawn slithered around me and pretended to be a dog to be patted. Or is it petted?

I told the kids their parents had died to save this country, to give kids in Iraq and Afghanistan the chance to choose their lives and to have the freedoms we take for granted. I told them there were not enough words in the English language to thank them enough for what they had done. For the sacrifice they had made. I told them their fathers and mothers had died doing God's work.

Then I signed autographs, mostly on the kids' T- shirts for about an hour.

I WISH I WERE ELOQUENT enough to tell you how brave these kids were and what a price they are paying. To lose a father while the rest of us complain about taxes and the stock market and the price of real estate. Quite a sight. Quite a concept.

How can we possibly repay them? How conceivably? There is nothing we can do. But be grateful and keep them in our hearts forever.

I walked with my friend Marina Malenic, ace in WMD, to a far larger ballroom, where the widows, mothers and fathers, fiancees, widowers maybe, of the men and women who were killed were gathered.

I sat with the head of the great organization, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Bonnie Carroll, who conceived of TAPS when her AF general husband was killed in training in Alaska many years ago. Maybe it was 1998. She is a pretty, extremely smart woman, with a heart as big as a Cadillac. We sat also with several women who had lost their husbands. They were all brave, all sharing their experience, strength, and hope with each other. One woman next to me said I did not need to feel sorry for her on the death of her husband in the Mosul bombing. "I got to live with him for 22 years," she said. "I was blessed."

Everyone there wore a button with a photo of the man who had died. The men looked impossibly healthy, fit, optimistic. They could not possibly be dead, and yet they were.

Several wives spoke of their last talks with their husbands, about what it was like when the Chaplain came up the driveway. Some read letters from their husbands talking about how happy they were to be helping the Iraqi children.

Bonnie spoke, perhaps the most moving speech I have ever heard in person, a difficult act to follow. She used to work with Reagan and maybe that explains her amazing ability to get in touch with truth.

Then I spoke and gave a little talk about how we could live without the stock market, could get on without Hollywood or new cars, but could not last a week without our armed forces and the armed forces could not last a week without the military family. "To most," I said, "the war on terrorism is an abstraction. But there is blood all over this room."

They gave me one standing ovation after another and I left the stage dizzy with gratitude. These women -- overwhelmingly women -- are paying a fearful price so the rest of us can get on with our daily selfishness and greed without hindrance.

So that the witches of Beverly Hills and Fifth Avenue can go on with their shopping, these women lost their husbands. Mothers and fathers were there, too. One came up to me, a crusty couple, husband a Marine, and showed me a dollar bill from his late son's wallet when the son was killed in Iraq. The edges were covered in blood.

HOW CAN WE THANK these families? How can we possibly praise enough the sacrifice they and their husbands have made? How can it ever be enough?

Yet, they have something the rest of us rarely have: meaning. They know why God put them on earth, why they live and suffer. They never doubt their worth.

Bonnie drove Marina and me back to The Watergate. I felt as if I had been with the finest people on earth that night, the ones in God's image.

Mostly, I see the dregs of human selfishness. When I am around the military -- the Honor Guard, the families, the kids, the parents, the ones who are the thin line between life and death for freedom, the ones who make our lives worth living, I have hope for the human spirit. The best of the human spirit is alive and well inside those red T-shirts.

(Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer in Beverly Hills and Malibu, and author of "Ben Stein's Diary" each month in The American Spectator.)

[Soldier4Christ]

I thank you all. I am sure that the Soldiers there will appreciate every word of every letter.

SelahJoy,

You said that you have email contact with some of the people in the sand box. Please feel free to copy these letters and send them to those you are in contact with.

May God bless you all for your caring hearts.

[nChrist]

To Our Proud Men and Women Serving In the U.S. Armed Services:

I am so proud that my son served with you for the last 6 years. I give thanks for your efforts around the world to keep your friends and family at home FREE. You are also preserving FREEDOM for hosts of people that you've never met. The vast majority of people at home appreciate what you are doing from the bottom of their hearts.

Millions of Christians pray for you every day that God will keep you safe and give you the strength to fulfill your mission. You will and have given FREEDOM to millions who have never known what it means to be FREE. Most of them will understand what you have done and give thanks for your efforts for the rest of their lives. The terrorists of this world and those who thrive in subjection of the innocent will hate you. If you weren't fighting these barbarians on their own soil, we would be fighting them on our soil.

Most people with the common sense to understand the big picture know that what you do around the world effects the peace and safety of every minute at home. We know that the terrorists you are fighting around the world want to come to America and kill us. So far, you have kept them so busy in other parts of the world that they haven't been able to create the terror they want in America. Members of your family and others go to school, church, shopping, and about our daily activities in peace and safety BECAUSE OF YOU, YOUR STRENGTH, YOUR COURAGE, AND YOUR ACTIONS. Please let me tell you with all certainty that none of your blood, sweat, and tears were shed in vain. You are the heroes of this generation who are preserving our FREEDOM and way of life. Those who laid down their lives did so for millions of innocent men, women, and children who will live and enjoy peace because of their sacrifice.

Please just let me express my heart-felt thanks for everything you do to preserve our FREEDOM and establish FREEDOM for millions of others who have never known it. I have strong feelings of pride and thanks numerous times each day when I think of you. Nearly all of the people I know pray for you at least every day.

THANKS!!!  -  MAY GOD WATCH OVER YOU AND BLESS YOU!!!

Tom Rightmer
Lawton - Ft. Sill, Oklahoma

[SelahJoy]

Hi to everyone from the United States who is serving in Iraq!

From my heart, I want to tell you how very proud I am of you!  I believe the stories about all your good works in Iraq.  I know that your hard work is doing good for the Iraqi people.

My son was there for one year and he sent me e-mails and pictures with stories about the lives you have helped by being in the country.  He told me about the schools being built and the water systems getting cleaned up.  He told me about Iraqis he met and how they worked together.  I learned that you are training the ING in protective services so they can protect their own and you can come back home.  Mostly, my son shared about the children.  One day, he grabbed a little boy who was in harms way----even though he really wasn't supposed to be distracted from his duties----but he saved that child's life.  I have a picture of the little boy and he looks full of life and hope!   My son told me about a little girl who needed life-saving surgery.  She and a parent got visas, round-trip airfare to and from America, and surgery, all because an American unit cared enough to pull the strings that made it happen.  This little girl's case is now in Iraq to teach doctors how to do the surgery for other children.  There are many other examples of good reports too.

I want you to know that there was a definite point in time, a marked day in my life, when I commited to pray for each of you everyday.  Since I don't know your names, I usually pray for the different fobs and towns by name.  The point is that I am praying for you and I know there are people all over the U.S. praying for you too.

If there is ever anything that you need or want, please remember where this letter came from, because if I can be of service to you, I would be honored.  

Love, selahjoy*