Struggles
THE FOG OF LIFE
Name: MSGT Ken Mahoy
Posting date: 3/14/08
Stationed in: Afghanistan
Milblog: Third Time’s A Charm!
I struggle. I struggle with what to even write sometimes. We have all reached the stage of this deployment where we can officially declare, “The honeymoon is over.” No more silent anxiety from the rookies worried about traveling to a war-torn country, no more pumped up bravado from men wanting to kick the enemy’s tail, no more patriotic propaganda and pep rallies urging us to “Be all we can be!” Just hard, cold reality setting in. Those realities that finally catch up to you when you just can’t push past the pain of how much you miss your kids, or how much you miss your girlfriend or wife. And other realities, such as realizing how frustrating even some of your fellow comrades are, and how damaging they can be to everyone’s morale.
This post makes me realize how hard it must be for a soldier to be in a different country for so long missing family and friends. This is just part of the post but the soldier kind of wraps it all up here. This is just one of the everyday struggles that soldiers in Iraq deal with. It must be so hard to have to leave everything and everyone you love behind for war, and thats what makes these soldiers and inspiration to me. Just like in my last post when I talked about the founding fathers and how they gave up so much for this country.
Ken Mahoy understands the sacrifices that have to be made to support ones country. How can people not support the troops in Iraq when there are soldiers like Ken Mahoy, who gave up everything to support his country. This soldier as do many soldiers need moral to keep doing what they are doing in Iraq, and that is fighting for a reason that is right and justified. So why not give a U.S soldiers that appreciation he or she deserves?
1 Comment
It is true that we should always give US soldiers our support. If you ask one person who does not support the US soldier and he answers “no”, then we should ask him to reconsider. He should not the propaganda administered by the BUSH administration but he should always support the US troops because the fight that they are fighting will always be a fight for our country so i agree that we should always give them our spirits and caring.
Now lets focus on the Iraqi citizens. They too should get our support because they are stuck in a war that they never wanted to be in the first place. Thousands and thousand have fled the country because they fear for their safety. They do not get the protection they need to keep their daughters and sons safe. They do not get the essentials to survive such as food, water, shelter. They do not get the support they need psychologically because they have nightmares every night.
The point I am trying to make is that we should always support our troops because they fight to protect the essentials that we have everyday in our lives and they fight to keep our families together. But we should never be selfish and think only for ourselves. We should think about the people who are involved in the war. The citizens that is loosing their essentials and the safety. The citizens that wakes up at 3am hearing grenades and worried that their family is still with them or not. These people deserve our thoughts and prayers too.