SOLDIER LETTERS

Soldiers who have served during the "War on Terror"

October 1, 2003:
"I hated you on a plane ride in the dark with shaking hands."

October 1, 2003:
"I would like to tell you how difficult it is to serve under a man who was never elected."

October 12, 2003:
"I feel like a pawn in Bush's game of global imperialism."

October 23, 2003:
"For those of us who do question and ask out loud what is going on (with "Iraqi Freedom") we are told everything is going well."

October 24, 2003:
"I just want to make things right, and stop our country from pissing in other countries pockets and screwing the less fortunate."

October 28, 2003:
"I used to think that being a republican was the way to go."

October 28, 2003:
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home... Again."

October 29, 2003:
"I was recently discharged with Honorable valor and returned to the States only to be horrified by what I've seen my country turn into."

November 3, 2003:
"These soldiers never signed up for this in the beginning"

November 4, 2003:
"I left the military this year when my time was up for the reason you brought up at the Oscars."

December 10, 2003:
"I have watched the country I serve change in terrifying ways."

December 11, 2003:
"Your Hero Is Talking" – A Soldier’s Poem

December 15, 2003:
"They caught a guy living in a hole. Am I supposed to be dazzled?"

December 16, 2003:
"If bush gets reelected, i don't think either of us will be thrilled living here."

December 21, 2003:
"I was deployed at 19, when my wife was 6 months pregnant."

December 21, 2003:
"What a country we live in to where the leader of the strongest nation in the world can lie to his people to get his war and even when the people realize that he lied, he still he sits in his throne in the White House, smoking away on his cigars."

December 23, 2003:
"What Price Freedom?"

Veterans from Previous Wars

October 27, 2003:
"Reservists are not issued side arms or flack vests as there was not enough money to outfit all the Reservists"

October 28, 2003:
"Even though I've felt somewhat uneasy about it, I've tried my darndest to support our efforts in Iraq."

December 14, 2003:
"I would like nothing better than to have a government, OF, FOR, and BY.....us, THE PEOPLE. What a concept!"

December 20, 2003:
"Do the present military grunts realize that down the line when they need help from the government it will not be forthcoming?"

December 23, 2003:
"I just want those youngsters to know that there are other ways besides killing themselves."

December 24, 2003:
"The military is not for the purpose of helping BIG BUSINESS clear a path to resources so they can earn huge profits."

Family & Friends:

October 27, 2003:
"In reality, it is this Administration and its followers that are more harmful and disrespectful to our troops."

October 28, 2003:
"He watched one of his comrades get his legs blown off."

December 20, 2003:
"He is my only child, and I pray that God will look over him and bring him home safely."

December 22, 2003:
"I was a Republican for most of my life until a man named George W. Bush ran for office."

December 22, 2003:
"He did his 7 months in Iraq, and he had his eyes opened."

Others:

December 20, 2003:
"They are going through the motions, but their eyes are dead and uncomprehending."