As I Sit Here In Peace And Comfort

As I sit here in the peace and comfort of my home down in Dixie, it is strange to think of what so many other Americans are going through at this very moment across the ocean on foreign lands.
War is among us, we are at war on two fronts as I write, Iraq and Afghanistan. We didn't start the war no, we were struck first on the fateful day of September 11th. We did not choose our enemy, for it was the enemy that chose us. This we must remember above all.
It saddens me often to hear Americans say that we should not be in this war, and that they do not support it.
America is not a war mongering nation, America is a peaceful nation but a proud nation, a courageous nation. It is because of America that two World Wars and the tyranny and murder plotted within them was stopped. For if not for America most of the European nations would not know freedom today and it is likely that the Jewish faith would have been wiped from existence had we not intervened and stopped Adolph Hitler and his Nazi plan to rule the world.
It is a fact, that democracy, freedom exists in countries where it never could have before had it not been for the aid and assistance of The United States. For even in the current war in Iraq, very little of the good we have accomplished there is being focused on. Not many Americans realize that because of American troops fighting courageously in Iraq, that the Iraqi people held their first real election. For many Iraqis it was their first time to ever vote at all, it was something they never in their lifetime expected to be able to do. But we made it possible and we made it happen.
In the war in Iraq, we have captured the former dictator Saddam Hussien, a man that was just as ruthless as Adolph Hitler was in World War II. We also captured his henchmen and brought them to the Iraqi leadership for justice, and it was the Iraqi people who called for their executions for the crimes against humanity they had commited, and it was the Iraqi courts that decided these men must die for their crimes, and it was the Iraqis that carried out those executions. Something they could never have done had it not been for the support and bravery of American troops. For in the past, if an Iraqi citizen so much as spoke out negatively about Saddam Hussien, that person was immediately executed in the streets and usually their family was as well, children included. But this has been brought to an end, Saddam can never again harm a soul.
These good things we have accomplished in Iraq are never the focal point of the American media. They for some reason choose to tell us the bad things of the war, how many Americans have lost their lives in it and about innocent Iraqi civilians being injured or killed, or suspected terrorist prisoners being tortured. And for the most part they only want to give us THEIR OPINION of how the war is going and if it should be going period. Which is definitely an example of journalism gone wrong. By doing this, the media is basically spreading false propaganda for support of the enemy our sons and daughters and other loved ones are facing every day.
With all of this on my mind tonight, as I sit here in the peace and comfort of my office in my home, I also wonder about the young soldier that is bleeding his or her life's blood out in the desert sands of Iraq or the mountainous regions of Afghanistan. I wonder who's heart will be breaking tomorrow in America when they get the news and I pray for them. I wonder if I will be the one getting that heartbreaking news, and I pray it won't be me. As I do I feel the guilt of a parent, for to pray it is not you that gets that terrible news, it feels the same as if you are hoping it is another parent that gets it. Inside I know I do not wish that news upon any parent ever!
Ok I reckon I have said enough in this post, have a goodnight and know that you're sleeping safe from the terrorist attacks tonight because of our troops over there laying it on the line to capture, defeat and kill if need be those that wish to see us (all Americans) dead and our nation completely destroyed. If protecting ourselves from that is not worth fighting for, well then what could possible be?