I wonder if the "Troops" know how much we support them?

As of late, many talking heads say that our efforts to end this war are demoralizing our troops even to the point that some returning home refrain from mentioning they are soldiers, so as to avoid conflict.

First of all, its hard for me to imagine picking a fight with one of our servicemen or women, let alone demean or harass them, so hearing such talk is troubling...

And, I totally don't understand where the against the war - against the troops mentality came from or when it even popped up. To be honest, I find it kind of hard to believe.

So, if this is true, what is it that we can and must do to let our TROOPS know how much we appreciate them and that we are fighting for them and for their benefits and for their families...???

Don't you think they deserve to know that some here at home are covering their backs and looking out for their families....?

and are just as divided about the war as we are. I'm not sure how much information they have access to but what they get is probably slanted to the right. What bothers me is they don't know that we have their back. The administration has been slashing V.A. benefits, soldiers pay and medical benefits, housing for their family's, while we as a nation may have their backs the politicans are busy thrusting a knife into it.

He said that soldiers like Gaul are divided in 3 parts when it comes to this issue. Those who totally support the war and resent those who do not, those who are thrilled that we are calling for it's end, and those who are just doing their jobs, keeping their heads down and trying to come home in one piece and don't care what people do or don't do. I'm pretty sure that was the gist of it. On edit, can't find the post in the archives, my timeline may be wrong.I remember it because my good friend's nephew is in the service and my friend does not support the war. the soldiers mom does and accused my friend of putting her son in more danger by standing against the war.

skylarmae wrote
As of late, many talking heads say that our efforts to end this war are demoralizing our troops even to the point that some returning home refrain from mentioning they are soldiers, so as to avoid conflict.

First of all, its hard for me to imagine picking a fight with one of our servicemen or women, let alone demean or harass them, so hearing such talk is troubling...

And, I totally don't understand where the against the war - against the troops mentality came from or when it even popped up. To be honest, I find it kind of hard to believe.

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity tells them so.

skylarmae wrote
So, if this is true, what is it that we can and must do to let our TROOPS know how much we appreciate them and that we are fighting for them and for their benefits and for their families...???

Don't you think they deserve to know that some here at home are covering their backs and looking out for their families....?

http://booksforsoldiers.com Through them you can reach out and touch our soldiers.

(Armed forces radio playing draft-dodging Rush . . .),

Then you only get the one side . . .

We have made it so... The people signed on the dotted line and gladly accepted the risk... But since The US had a recent track record of loosing fewer troops, prior to the invasion, than normally are killed in industrial accidents, the people enlisting believed the risk was worth taking, for what ever reason...

Once in the service, they are committed for the length of their contract...

I have no sense of animosity toward any person serving in Iraq or Afganistan... They are simply doing a job... A dangerous job at that... But when it all boils down to the truth, the troops are just doing their job....

What I do abhor is the cavalier way in which the political people think nothing of putting these men and women in harms way just to score political points... Or to secure a political position...

That is what I despise...

Put it this way... I do not particularly like the way WalMart operates their business... But I am capable of holding the shareholders and the executives responsible for setting the policy of the corporation... I have no animosity at all toward the people who are forced to work there or, for that matter, have to shop there as well... And one of the reasons I am a democrat is to change the conditions in this country that force people into working at WalMart or, for that matter, joining the Armed Services....

So being against the policy and the people who sent us, as a country, into war for dubious reasons in no way indicates that those troops on the ground are also the subject of my ill will...

After all, they are just doing their job....