Low-Morale Letters From Iraq

At Ft. Stewart Thursday morning, another thousand soldiers came home from Iraq to a joyous celebration.

And yet for Spreanna Pomroy's family, someone else's homecoming is pure pain.

"It's the most depressing thing you can see. You want to be one of those wives taking your soldier home," she told CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann.

Specialist Nathan Pomroy, gone for nine months in Iraq, feels stuck there, as his letters from the battlefield make clear: "I want my life back. I have no one right now,"

"Now he has no hope," his wife said. She admitted it was very hard to read his letters.

For troops with the 3rd Infantry Division still in Iraq, morale wilts in the desert.

"Everyone wants to go home. I want to go home," said Maj. Gen. Burford Blount.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/17/eveningnews/main563822.shtml

No Maj. Gen. Burford Blount ESPN's, (Murdoch's) new announcer Rush Limbaugh says you have to die for The Bush/GOP Crime Family profits and lies. Stop wimpering and 'Support the Troops'.

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(In my opinion, we should be organized. We should get a mailing list of the military personel and send them a DU flyer and invite them to join our forum.)

Good for CBS. I hope the others grab this.

should go to Baghdad and use his amazing charisma to boost the morale of those who've been baking in the stifling heat for his sorry war-for-corporate-profits, PNAC derived policies. Maybe he can 'splain it all to them so they'll understand.

It is not unusual for soldiers to feel this way...even the high ranking one's. I have several letters that my father wrote during WWII and they speak volumes. It is even worse in this case because many (including myself) feel that this war was completely unessessary.

I remember how it was when I was in Southeast Asia during the latter part of the war. Loneliness, dispair the whole gambit of emotions. Since our current dictator saw fit to involve us in this mess we need to concentrate on getting our military people home as fast as possible. It will take many of them a long time to deal with what they have seen and what they have done.

A very sad state of affairs.