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Subject: Fw: A Sobering Thought

and now::
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Turner [mailto:meekybob@cableone.net]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 9:31 PM
To: Marsha Redwine; Kevin Bushart; Elizabeth Woolridge; Bryan Turner
Subject: Fw: A Sobering Thought
> I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at
> Valley Forge as he holds his musket in his bloody hands. He stands
> barefoot in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded from months of
> battle, and emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his family
> surrounded by nothing but death and carnage of war. He stands tough
with
> fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks at us now in anger
and
> disgust and tells us this...
> I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the Constitution and now your
> children cannot or do not read it. I fought in the snow barefoot to give
> you the freedom to vote and you stay at home because it rains.
> I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech and you
remain
> silent on critical issues, because it might be bad for business.
> I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you and now many
> politicians are so self-serving that democracy has become a secondary
> issue.
> It's the soldier not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press.
> It's the soldier not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech.
> It's the soldier not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate.
> It's the soldier who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is
> draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!!
> "Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they
protect
> us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for
> us in our time of need. Amen."
> Prayer Wheel:
> When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our
> U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan, the ones already in and others facing
> deployment to and around Iraq at this very moment, as well as those
> soldiers stationed all over this world.
> There is nothing attached.... This can be very powerful.... Just send
this
> to all the people in your address book. Do not stop the wheel,
> please....Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Prayer is the
very
> best one.....
> > >

question::
do people care?
answer::
they should.