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This is merely my humble opinion. I understand if you don't agree.
Essay: Caught in the Middle
I’m no war monger, but I’m not a pacifist either. I’m caught somewhere in the middle, between the crosshairs of those aiming at my enemies and those who guiltlessly aim their hate directly at me and those I love.
I’m obsessively drawn to watch Glenn Beck on nightly CNN as he warns us of the insidious hate for America that’s screamed on insurgent TVs, graphically shown on radical websites, and our freedoms and beliefs are even threatened in the very streets of London.
I abhor war. I’ve given till it hurts, countless ancient relatives, my own love in Vietnam, now a son-in-law who is about to embark on a second mission to Iraq after also serving in Afghanistan right after 9/11. I would hate for my youngest daughter and her three children to suffer what I did at his loss.
Saying that, I also need to say I love freedom and our way of life. I have watched the radicals on TV chanting death to America. I have seen them on websites vowing to rule the entire world by climbing up the bloodied bodies of the slaughtered infidels.
War has been with us since time began. Yes, we hate it. War is hell. But, had we not fought the Revolutionary War, there would not be a free America. Had we not fought the Civil War, African-Americans would not know freedom. World War II, brought the end to the Nazi’s plan for world domination. War brings sacrifice and pain, but in the end, war also protects our freedom and brings an end to the despicable evil that threatens us.
What people don’t realize is that we are facing an evil today unlike anything we have ever seen. As an American, I am ashamed of our Congress and what they are doing! We aren’t just fighting for democracy in Iraq. We are fighting for our very lives, worldwide. The people of Iran are good people -- however, those in Iran’s government are pure evil and seek worldwide domination.
If you don’t believe me, I urge you to go online and get a copy of a movie called “Obsession”, which I assure you will put things into proper perspective. I was horrified after watching it. The last I checked, the movie is not offered on Blockbuster or Amazon, but there is a website where you can get it. Google it, I beg you.
We must choose our battles wisely, yes. But we must also defend ourselves and our beliefs, and if we must fight -- let us fight to win! We can't let Congress tie our hands and hold back the funds to do the job we have to do, or worse yet, announce when we are leaving so the Irani government can immediately move in and take Iraq when we're gone. We are facing pure unadulterated evil right now in our lifetime. If we don’t get our heads out of the sand and see it for what it really is, we might as well get fitted for bourkas … or, if you’re proud and practicing Christians, like I am … caskets.
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| Reviewed by Reginald Johnson |
8/7/2007 |
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Please accept my words of support for your heart-felt, timely, and poignant essay, Mrs. Heck. Let me also thank you and your family for the sacrifices made in serving our great nation … and for the freedoms I and countless others enjoy. We are facing an insidious enemy with no regard for anything other than our complete annihilation. They understand tyranny can not survive alongside truth, literacy, and democracy. The beauty and strength of our country is the resilience of its people (personified by your example). It is why; ultimately, we can … and will prevail.
Warm regards ...
Reggie Johnson |
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| Reviewed by Tinka Boukes |
4/19/2007 |
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A deep introspective offering!!
Love Tinka |
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| Reviewed by Rusty Daily |
4/17/2007 |
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IMHO, it is very necessary to pick wars very carefully. War is an action that is designed to kill people and break things. If entered into, havoc must be wrecked until the foe is totally vanquished. It seems America is unable to do that and what a shame. The only involvement of a politician should be to declare and then step out of the way. More lives will be saved if we first, choose our war correctly and then wage it as if it was a war. I do not agree with this war and I did not agree with the first line in the sand. I believe both could have been handled in a better fashion. I will not state the method I would have chosen in this comment but I believe it would have been just more effective and with less lives lost. Our defense personnally and as a nation should be handled with the belief that it is you or me and fight accordingly. CJ, you certainly know how to bring out the fire in ones belly. LOl
loveya
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| Reviewed by LadyJtalks LadyJzTalkZone |
4/17/2007 |
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| CJ, I think there are many of us who feel as you do. We do hear what I think is a minority on the news who want to fight funds going for the service unless we have an exit date. I'm trusting that our leaders aren't dumb enough to do that. We all know it sounds stupid. The terrorist or what ever is proper to call them would just stop fighting until then. Yet, my second worry is , none of us thought they'd take prayer out of school either. Food for thought. Thank you for voicing this. Lady J |
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| Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan |
4/17/2007 |
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| a well thought out and well written essay. I am somewhere there in the middle most of the time but also have moments where I think we should just get the job done and stop twiddling our thumbs-no easy answers to the ideas of war |
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| Reviewed by Georg Mateos |
4/17/2007 |
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Dear author:
In WWII we had a good reason, so I think we had in Korea, things started to go foggy in Nam.
Middeleast catatrophe started when we allowed us to go into a Mexican-stand-off with Iran November 4th, 1979. We had an opportunity there to be fast and firm...but we wanted just to talk, please don't be mad?
After the Pentagon Brass botched the killing of Osama Bin Laden, we gave a much provoked illiterated millionaire a cause that was the way to 9/11.
Until then, Afaghaners where pretty happy with our help to kick the russians and their Afghan puppet government.
Buch Senior gave the wrong signals to Saddam and the dictator thought it was OK to take Kuwait.
Bush Senior again got in love with the idea of his 100 days War, and cut it short of total victory getting the hell out of there and let the iraqis to sort themselves.
But no, we can write the books about the glorious 100 days war!!!
To make things worse, we bogged us in Iraq without a plan.
I feel the pain of more than 3.000 brothers and sisters out there, because they are commanded by Commanders on the field with their hands tied on their backs.
If soldiers shot it is wrong...Court Martial, we need to show the world how good we are.
If the soldier don't shot...he dies.
Nobody had stopped to think and recognize that those monsters growing everywhere are seeds from the first monster we so casually created.
With utmost respect
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| Reviewed by Felix Perry |
4/17/2007 |
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Written from the heart and well meaning, I do think though that the countries involved in this including my own country of Canada (we just had 8 more casualties last week returned for burial) need to either crap or get off the pot so to speak. Send in every man available every piece of equipment short of atom bombs and end it as fast as possible. This war is and has turned into another Vietnam I believe CJ and unless we either increase the amount of resources committed to it, more good men, like your husband in Veitnam, will continue to die only to be pulled out in a year or so to see it revert back to what it was. We need total defeat there as much as we did in Nazi Germany at the end of WW II. I respect and admire your openess in this CJ.
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| Reviewed by George Carroll |
4/17/2007 |
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| An honest and forthwrite vent of your feelings which I agree with completely. We have many enemies within our country and in our government that are doing more harm than our enemies abroad. We a fed a stream of lies from all left wing medias that have confused honest Americans and continue to bombard us from all sides with constant venom for our President that too many people have, because they hear it so often, began to think it must be true. Wake up America the enemy is here. |
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| Reviewed by Ann Marquette |
4/17/2007 |
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Well written thoughts CJ. It is part of and adds to the sadness of yesterdays killings at Virginia Tech.
God help us all. One of my cousins had sent me an email about "Guess our national leaders didn't expect this, hmm? On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton , Colorado" which actually took place in 1999 and how life in schools have gone downhill since God was taken out of the schools. He sent me the email long before he heard what happened in Virginia. |
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