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Why Support Our Troops
by JamesMacRyland on Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:07 pm
Why Support Our Troops in an Unpopular War?
All of my youth I was aware of the hatred and menace in the eyes of those who blamed and turned on the peace movement, I suffered unusually from dire attack at too young an age to understand. I have thought long and hard, see the University of Washington, the type of kids who join the Armed Forces here, and the style they bring to places where they represent themselves ceremonially and, aware that the Mental Health system is one of the places that serves as a magnet for homeless veterans I decided to give some thought to the slogan of the opposition to the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars, Support Our Troops, and I finally decided that I agree with it.
The War in Afghanistan has been an invisible war. The confrontations have taken place far from the television screens. The killed and wounded have not been heard. The soldiers who went there and are returning home have been invisible men. For this reason it is important that you shed light on the feelings in your heart.
Soldiers in the U.S. Army are men of the people. They did not make these wars. They enlisted because they love and cherish the good things about America, the peace-loving and the brave, they remember their high school sweethearts, and the athletic club, they admire the same sports heroes, root for the same teams, have the same politicians to choose from. If you harbor a difference of opinion about the war take that up with your representatives, the troops went there innocently of blame to defend you, because they believe in you.
We hear sometimes that war time experience can make some of our soldiers cynical. Those who survive in one piece, the lucky ones, still have wounded men they knew, those who died. It is their tragedy to endure that in an invisible war their losses and ours were invisible losses and this invisibility comes young to men and sometimes women who haven't lived long enough to search out all of the necessary questions about life and liberty, and their experiences may darken their ability to cope.
For all of these reasons your heart should go out to them, brave men, who stand for us, who want liberty, peace and a brotherhood of man, but for whom confrontation has been ordered by those who, whether right or wrong, it is not always clear, have decided with the authority they are sworn to that justice can only be done confrontationally.
The reason you should support our troops is because it means something to them
All of my youth I was aware of the hatred and menace in the eyes of those who blamed and turned on the peace movement, I suffered unusually from dire attack at too young an age to understand. I have thought long and hard, see the University of Washington, the type of kids who join the Armed Forces here, and the style they bring to places where they represent themselves ceremonially and, aware that the Mental Health system is one of the places that serves as a magnet for homeless veterans I decided to give some thought to the slogan of the opposition to the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars, Support Our Troops, and I finally decided that I agree with it.
The War in Afghanistan has been an invisible war. The confrontations have taken place far from the television screens. The killed and wounded have not been heard. The soldiers who went there and are returning home have been invisible men. For this reason it is important that you shed light on the feelings in your heart.
Soldiers in the U.S. Army are men of the people. They did not make these wars. They enlisted because they love and cherish the good things about America, the peace-loving and the brave, they remember their high school sweethearts, and the athletic club, they admire the same sports heroes, root for the same teams, have the same politicians to choose from. If you harbor a difference of opinion about the war take that up with your representatives, the troops went there innocently of blame to defend you, because they believe in you.
We hear sometimes that war time experience can make some of our soldiers cynical. Those who survive in one piece, the lucky ones, still have wounded men they knew, those who died. It is their tragedy to endure that in an invisible war their losses and ours were invisible losses and this invisibility comes young to men and sometimes women who haven't lived long enough to search out all of the necessary questions about life and liberty, and their experiences may darken their ability to cope.
For all of these reasons your heart should go out to them, brave men, who stand for us, who want liberty, peace and a brotherhood of man, but for whom confrontation has been ordered by those who, whether right or wrong, it is not always clear, have decided with the authority they are sworn to that justice can only be done confrontationally.
The reason you should support our troops is because it means something to them
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