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coldwarvet · Last edited by coldwarvet on Mon Oct 04, 2004 12:42 pm; edited 1 time in total

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Thanks to servicemembers
To U.S. servicemembers: All of America will always be in your debt. Because of your service and sacrifice of being in harm’s way, we have not had an attack on the homeland since 9/11/01. I believe in all sincerity that if it were not for you taking the fight to them, these indoctrinated jihad insurgent combatants would be attacking us on the homeland. And instead of hundreds of fallen U.S. troops, we would have buried tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of U.S. civilians by now.
It is only because the insurgents are preoccupied with keeping a democracy from being established in the heart of the jihad terrorist world that they don’t have the resources to expend on attacking America. It is my opinion that as you guys keep tightening the noose and the enemy realizes that the objective of keeping Iraq from becoming a democracy is a lost cause, the remnants will shift their focus to attacking the homeland. Hopefully by the time you get done with them, they will not have much left to attack with.
The Cold War lasted from 1945 through 1991, and I think this war against terrorism is going to be as long. We won the Cold War with the American media hammering away at us. But those of us who served knew in our hearts what the tragic result would have been had we stood down from the Soviets. As I stood watch over Minuteman III missile silos in the prairie land of Wyoming, I prayed along with millions of others that this is one shot that would not have to be taken. I thank God that the blast doors never opened and the missiles stayed in the ground.
I wish somehow the war on terror could be as clean, but it is not — so thousands will die so millions of us can live out of harm’s way.
Out of dozens of movies Hollywood produced about the Vietnam soldier, it managed to get it right just once, in “We Were Soldiers.” If you get a chance, watch it or read the book. The movie depicts the exact tactics I was trained to use in the ’70s, and I thank God that I was never called on to use the training I received.

coldwarvet
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dmackto · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 12:42 pm Post subject:

Thats great! I'm very glad some of our soldiers in harms way will get to read it and be uplifted.
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Doc Jerry · Commander Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 339

Nice Job ColdWar, real nice job.

coldwarvet · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 12:49 pm Post subject:

Thanks Knight Hawk for suggesting Stars & Stripes. My son has a friend who is serving in Iraq and he received an email from her, saying that the troops appreciated the letter.

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Navy_Navy_Navy · Admin Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 5777

Congratulations and thank you for such a nice letter - these troops need to hear from us now more than ever that we support them and pray for them and love them! Way to go!
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