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While we celebrate the coming of summer, our troops are still engaged

By Remy Benoit

    Summer started just a few days ago and the tv is filled with ads for the  traditional forms of fun in the sun.

    The daylight lasts longer; the barbecues are lit, the pools filled, the boats gased up. Well, for some of us. For others not so fortunate, the summer heat sizzles in the cities, old cars boil  over.

    And for over 160,000 of our women and men summer brings active service in combat areas. For some of them, summer never came.

    Let us not forget them.
From Fox News:

      U.S. Special Forces Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Firefight.

      Three Iraqis Arrested in Possible Kidnapping of Two GIs.

      Keep in mind, during World War II with a nation engaged in a total war just about everyone had someone engaged actively in the military. This was not true in Korea, in Vietnam, in Desert Storm,  nor is it true now. Families are here praying, waiting, without the closeness of the kind of  emotional, psychological, or financial support they had in the Big One.


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