daylia:

Whereas I am in agreement with you in all most everything you say I might just throw a few thoughts into the mix.

Many of these soldiers never thought in their wildest dreams that they would end up having to fight. When we look at the past decade or so, though there have been wars, these wars have been fought and won (for a lack of a better term since no one really wins a war except Satan...) from the air with bombs.

With that said, lots of kids who have been heavily recruited in high school have joined the military as a means of getting an education. This partly expalins why so many of ground troops are from variuos minorities. These folks, as well as most of the world's population in the year 2000 could not have forseen the events that would unfold as the result of aa arrogant, unilaterialist President.

So, I'm sure that the majority of these folks deep down inside are womndering just what the heck went wrong with their plans to move up in life. Bad timing.

Now I know I am not speaking of all these people but enough of them for me to feel needs our good thoughts and prayers that they will not be put in harms way or inflict harm on anyone else.

Peace

Bobert