"Faye" att.net> wrote in message
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| Please do not ever give even the appearance of making light of our
| veterans who have suffered or aid those who do.
|
| Excuse that this is a particularly sore subject for me right now. I
| received an email from a member of an org that helps provide basics,
| toiletries and T-shirts, for persons at Nashville's VA Hosp. They are
| in need of everything. It tore at my heart that these persons, who
| have put themselves in harm's way at the behest of this nation are
| reduced to this. That a war in which they were called to serve is
| unpopular does not change the fact that, if I or mine needed them,
| they would be there to answer the call.
|
| Two hours later I received a call from a lifelong dearest friend who
| received the PH in VN. He has had bouts of PTSD ever since and is in
| real trouble now. He began the conversation by saying, "Our daddies
| were heroes." I replied, "So are you."
|
| My eldest cousin didn't survive PTSD. Dear Lord God in Heaven,
| please, please, Almighty God, do not take another one from me because
| of what war did to him.
|
| I told my friend that, now with Daddy gone, I'd had to eliminate the
| threat of a Copperhead on my patio by myself. So antithetical was
| this act to everything that is me, my friend said, "Don't ever do it
| again. Call me." A manly man but possessed with the gentlest of
| souls.
|
| If there were a Copperhead on your patio, would you call McCain or
| Obama to dispatch it?
|
| Really, friends and neighbors, think about it.
|
| Faye
McCain.
"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has
struck to crush him." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
