Show American pride by sending soldiers mail
Once again, our young men, and now young women, are being called up to fight, this time in the Middle East. This war didn’t just start there. It has been going on since father Abraham went to choose a bride in this foreign country.
Saddam Hussein is a power-hungry idiot. Like Hitler and others before him, he will try to take what he wants to take, what he desires, regardless of the cost. That desert we are fighting over is worth 10 cents an acre. That stuff buried beneath the sand is priceless – that three-letter word called oil.
If papa George Bush had finished up the job and got Hussein 10 years ago, our young people wouldn’t be called up to do the job today. But they are there defending, and dying, for our country. I feel they deserve our support.
As a man once said, “My country, right or wrong, my country.”
I don’t know what goes on in our government but I do believe in these young men and women who are there trying to stop an idiot. Maybe, just maybe, if we had stood up to Hitler and Mussolini back in the 1930s, there wouldn’t have been any WWII.
I spent almost four years in the Navy in WWII. It was a kill-or-be-killed war.
Let us all be thankful the good Lord let us build a weapon that would bring an end to WWII as well as giving a president who wasn’t afraid to use this weapon. Regardless of how you feel about this war, remember our troops are wearing the uniform of the USA. I feel we owe them our support.
I’m asking each red-blooded citizen to send them a card or letter telling them you are proud of them and to wear their uniform proudly. As a veteran, I know the greatest piece of mail you can get is a letter from home. Tell them how proud and thankful you are of them.
Robert Thatch
248 Cascade Ave.
McMinnville