Judy Hamilton
30th June 2006, 05:54 AM (05:54)
It is 0400 here ..I am awake with wretched Booney Dreams..Not at all comfortable, actually they are painful. Usually i do well and am not tormented as many veterans are with these visits in my sleep.
I have had someone contact me and request I pen a brief article for a compliation of 50 essays that will make a book featuring a soldier from each State that has died in Iraq. The book proceeds will go into a fund to assist families who are visiting their wounded soldeir in Bethesda and a couple of other places around the US where our casualties are being treated. Anyway I have reviewd several men stories that were KIA from the State of Alaska (my assigned State) and have attempted to contact one widow. The Soldier's name is Chester age 45 married 23 years son 17 daughter age 14
Tonight my sleep has been haunting. I sat at the computer before turning it off for the night and had a good cry over all of the men i saw on this web site. Young! some of them probably do not even need to bother shaving..just smooth peach fussy faces
Are we all not so grieved over the losses?? I will not comment that they were/are senseless as I truely believe that we are waging a war against an Animal of Horror that must be addressed head-on. There is no room for finese
Then with Kris is now flying to the Mid East my concern is for the safety of he and his team. For sure I would make a lousy mom of a soldeir or Marine.
I was deeply in love with a man, left him in Vietnam. He was in harms way enough in Vietnam ..but then he jumped directly into a place of sheer hell and spent the last months of his tour as a RAVEN FAC (Forward Air Controller) deep in the jungles of Laos. He flew during daylight hours. I worked 12 hour nights at Parkland Childrens Hospital in Dallas after I was discharged from the Army. My every waking and restless sleeping breath was litterally a prayer for his safety. So I am familar with the near immobilizing fear that grips parents, families and spouses in the lonely hours of the night, when their warrior is out and about and in harms way.
God! Please watch over our men and women! Be their rear guard and a cloud of protection that goes before them! watch over them in their rising and their lying down and bring each one home safe to the arms of their families! Hear my prayer Oh God!
Judy
http://www.rebeccapepin.com/About_Faces_of_Freedom.html
I have had someone contact me and request I pen a brief article for a compliation of 50 essays that will make a book featuring a soldier from each State that has died in Iraq. The book proceeds will go into a fund to assist families who are visiting their wounded soldeir in Bethesda and a couple of other places around the US where our casualties are being treated. Anyway I have reviewd several men stories that were KIA from the State of Alaska (my assigned State) and have attempted to contact one widow. The Soldier's name is Chester age 45 married 23 years son 17 daughter age 14
Tonight my sleep has been haunting. I sat at the computer before turning it off for the night and had a good cry over all of the men i saw on this web site. Young! some of them probably do not even need to bother shaving..just smooth peach fussy faces
Are we all not so grieved over the losses?? I will not comment that they were/are senseless as I truely believe that we are waging a war against an Animal of Horror that must be addressed head-on. There is no room for finese
Then with Kris is now flying to the Mid East my concern is for the safety of he and his team. For sure I would make a lousy mom of a soldeir or Marine.
I was deeply in love with a man, left him in Vietnam. He was in harms way enough in Vietnam ..but then he jumped directly into a place of sheer hell and spent the last months of his tour as a RAVEN FAC (Forward Air Controller) deep in the jungles of Laos. He flew during daylight hours. I worked 12 hour nights at Parkland Childrens Hospital in Dallas after I was discharged from the Army. My every waking and restless sleeping breath was litterally a prayer for his safety. So I am familar with the near immobilizing fear that grips parents, families and spouses in the lonely hours of the night, when their warrior is out and about and in harms way.
God! Please watch over our men and women! Be their rear guard and a cloud of protection that goes before them! watch over them in their rising and their lying down and bring each one home safe to the arms of their families! Hear my prayer Oh God!
Judy
http://www.rebeccapepin.com/About_Faces_of_Freedom.html