Friday, February 02, 2007

True hero

Here's a tough but heartwarming story and a picture of a CMSgt John Gebhardt in Iraq passed on to me by email from my wife.

This little girl's entire family was executed. They intended to execute her also and shot her in the head, but they failed to kill her. She was cared for by John's hospital and healing, but
has been crying and moaning.


The nurses said John is the only one she seems to calm down with, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both sleep in that chair. The girl is coming along with her healing. Hard to tell all that's going through her poor little innocent mind.


John is a real "star" of the war, and he is representative of what America is trying to do there..... but, stories like this don't make the evening news.

Pass it on.....

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posted by TheWino @ 9:10 AM

1 Comments:

At 6:06 PM, February 02, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is the kind of thing that just eats away at you. War. Violence. Devastating loss. This girl, now an orphan. Those schoolgirls dying in a mortar attack. It is absolutely heart-breaking. I can see how most Americans want to leave Iraq. I can see that it feels like we are the cause of this. It makes you want to end it all.

I wonder, though, if little girls like this are still alive because of U.S. troops. Hundreds or thousands of Iraquis would have been shot and buried in some random mass graves if Saddam was still in power. Are we helping or hurting the Iraquis? Who do we trust? The president? CNN? Fox? NBC? The Generals? Where is Michael Moore when you need him?

I fear what will happen if we leave Iraq and don't finish the fight. I fear that the events shown in pictures from Iraq every day (thank you New York Times) will soon find their way to our shores. I worry that my town's school might someday become a target for terrorism, just like that Russian school tragedy. There are enough Ted Kazinskys and Timothy McVeighs here in the U.S. Let's keep the Islamic terrorists in the Middle East for as long as possible.

Thank you to the soldiers who are fighting to do just that.

 

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