Protesters' signs hurt troop morale
09/24/2004
To the editor:
This letter is in response to the ever popular subject of our deceased troops and the ignorant people that hold their "gas" signs in front of City Hall. Jeffrey Holland, another submitter, stated it correctly. Our soldiers know the ultimate price they may pay (death). But they still choose to do it so that 9/11 is hopefully never repeated. Our soldiers do not go overseas to fight a war that isn't ours. It became our war the day the Pentagon was bombed.
Ask any survivor or family member of that tragic day if we belong in Iraq and you will get a very different answer then these people holding their signs.
Bush would have sent our troops into any country that bred such filth as Saddam Hussein and his terrorists, not just an oil-rich country.
I was involved in a Family Support group for an Army Battalion and let me tell you this, as I spoke with soldiers they told me that hearing about things like these protesters brings their morale down. Regardless of how we feel about this war we should be bringing their morale up, not down.
Please consider using your pens to write a letter to a soldier in Iraq rather than dishonoring the memories of those valiant soldiers that gave their lives to try and stop terrorism and maintain our freedom.
Rachael Garner
Flagstaff
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