Bill Moyers Journal tonight - how deployments of the National Guard

affect those left behind.
Among the stresses of daily life — rising fuel prices, falling home values, a faltering economy — Americans might forget that The United States has been at war in Afghanistan and Iraq for seven years. But for families with members in the military, the wars are part of daily life.

Not all the troops participating in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom are full time soldiers. Many of the U.S. forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan are part-time troops called to active duty from the Army National Guard and Reserve. These teachers, maintenance workers, business-owners, fathers and mothers have been called to active duty in numbers not seen since World War II.

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL spoke with members of the New Jersey National Guard to learn about the particular strain the wars put on citizen-soldiers as they prepare for deployment to Iraq — some for the second time.

Also:
The Parties are over

Your personal political platform

I would have missed it

the sub-prime crisis on schools. What a mess. Schools cutting back number of days.
Vote them out.

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brings back the outrage and the anger.... :grr:

I want to stay in a good mood tonight.

I'm celebrating my birthday tonight, a day late. :party:

Thanks for the alert, malaise. ;)

:party: :toast:

Rum and cokes! :P

:party: :woohoo: :hi:

I love chocolate cake. :D

a suck up! :rofl:

He knows how to get to me! :P

But Bill Moyer's here is all about Agism, McCain and this election!

Are you seeing the same show too? :shrug:

Maybe... THAT's WHY the M$M is being such asshats?

A lot of them are getting older now!!

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and you're right - it's just making me angry.

:cry:

The way the NG has been treated just gauls me!! :grr: :nuke:

the South East Coast starting tonight. I hope for everyone's sake, that the National Guard is not needed in New Jersey over this weekend. The States must stand up for their rights.

:(

:grr:

That's her job... to keep the troops focused. :(

:cry: They weren't protecting the US over there at all. :(

:hug:

Bush doesn't care.

:cry:

All I can say is Fuck George Bush. Never will he and the rest of the goons be forgiven.

:grr:

:banghead:

And you know? I only had a unmarried, childless, son in the
NG deployed to OIF but these people are leaving children!! :grr:

Makes me sick and .... (can't say what I think!) :nuke:

All for a LIE!!!! :grr:

that they have to go to food kitchens.

And Bush didn't care that a lot of the families ended up

on Food Stamps and Welfare and at Food Panties!! :grr:

Then had the gall to put them down for asking for assistance!! :grr: :nuke:

And the RETHUGS have the audacity to scream and yell about killing "entitlements"

and under funding it all the time!! :grr:

and are not receiving treatment.

Damn that was heartbreaking. Cheers.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html

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Can't dwell on it tonight. I've done a lot of that for a long time.

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