Some Soldiers Mom

Special thank to Lori for bringing this to my attention, and Blackfive for covering it so closely.  Some Soldiers Mom, a magnificent woman who I was fortunate enough to spend a few hours with on the Web of Support tour, has faced an extremely difficult 24 hours.  Her son was seriously injured in Iraq, suffering a spinal injury in an IED blast.  Updates continue to come in, but please keep Noah in your prayers as well as his family, they need all the support they can get.  Visit Some Soldier Mom here: http://somesoldiersmom.blogspot.com/.

Comments

[Zaven]

Hi. I heard you on some radio show in the SF Bay Area today on the way to work. I wanted to say thanks for attempting to be fair and understanding of the callers. I thought the host was rude and dismissive of them, and with comments like "we're in a part of the country that often doesn't understand why we're there [in Iraq]," he deserved the callers he got. To suggest that the growing number of citizens that oppose this war or this administration's policies just "don't understand" is insulting and naive. And of course, many would use the same argument about the other side.

I heard the excerpt from your book in which you mention seeing protests back at home apparently devoid of concern for the troops. As someone who has attended several of the huge marches in SF and elsewhere, I am saddened that you got that impression. In my experience, the number one concern of those who are proactively against the war is... the troops! We feel that sending our men and women into battle for all the wrong reasons is one of the greatest sins a nation can commit. I think that as a nation we have come a long way since the late Vietnam era, when some hated the war as well as the soldiers. I remember distinctly at one march seeing signs criticizing the President's plan to cut veteran medical benefits.

Implying that protesters are misguided or lacking in compassion is harmful to the process of free expression that is necessary to ensure that we don't enter into wrongful or unneccessary wars, and therefore is in the end harmful to those who must fight them.

But I think you already knew that.

[Kat in GA]

OMG I'VE BEEN READING HER BLOG FOR AGES!!!! OMG... thank you for letting usknow... will scoot over there RIGHT NOW and post a message of support...and will be PRAYING LIKE NEVER BEFORE!

[Leisa McDonald]

God bless you and your friends for all you do. I am so sorry to hear about the death of your friend.

Leisa

[Rosemary]

Thank you for the heads up. They met up with their son. He is in pain, but he sure was glad to see them! Prayers are powerful! Have a good day.

[Andrew Fuller]

Hey. I am Andrew Fuller. I live in Carmel, Indiana. I am 11 years old. Wow, I may not know much about war but when I read Some Soldiers Mom that was sad sad. I know how she feels. Because I have lost many family members. I lost my great grandpa in World War II in the Pearl Harbor attack. Also I keep soldiers in my mind. Now I will keep Noah in my mind.

[Jonny]

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[Henry Manning Jr.]

sorry about the mom's son keep safe and be careful. peace!

[Jeff Bott]

Chris,
Hello, I've been thinking of you and wondering how you have been doing. It goes without saying you made an impact on me while I read your blogs last year. What have you been up to? Have you had a major life change? It seems almost everyone who came back made huge changes in their lives and I hope you did too. I hope your life is going really well. We will have our son in about 30 days and I'm so excited. Well now I'm a UA for a MP Company, and I will be training to be a MP Platoon leader. Big change especially as we face another deployment (at least that is the rumor, but who really knows?). Take good care of yourself, I'd love to hear what you are up to.
Your Pal
Jeff

[Alex Doll]

US medical crews evacuated 3 critically injured Canadian soldiers from Afghanistan after a roadside bomb destroyed the G-wagon they were traveling in. A Canadian civilian government aid was killed in the attack.

I would like to thank the crews who conducted the evac and the medical teams at the US hospital in Germany where the three soldiers are receiving treatment. Our disgraceful government sold the only military helicopters Canadians could use in Afghanistan leaving our troops to beg rides from allies.

http://wakinguponplanetx.blogspot.com/2006/01/our-injured-soldiers.html

Please don't accept that the rantings of our shameful leftist government speaks for all Canadians. Many of us are grateful for the job being done by ALL the forces for freedom in Middle-Eastern countries who have never known the meaning of the word "Freedom".

-Alex Doll, P.Eng
Vancouver, Canada

[Kathleen]

Chris,
Discovered your blog recently and just stayed up half the night reading it all (okay... I confess... I skimmed over some of the more polictical lectures, lol). I'm too tired to be as eloquent as I'd like, but I wanted you to know how proud you make me to be an American.

I have a very close friend (a Reservist) who's halfway through a one year deployment in al Kut (couple hours south of Baghdad). It seems like a relatively stable area, but I worry about him all the time - for both his physical and emotional safety. I'm not sure how he ended up in a MI unit as as a reservist, he did telecommunications stuff like you did.

As you celebrate today the sacrifice that Christ made for us, please know that all around the world, people like me are celebrating the sacrifices you and your brothers and sisters in arms have made for us. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

~Kathleen
Michigan

[beverly]

Hi..umm...this guy had a bunch of links on his blog and I just wanted to say thank you...I don't understand everything that is going on in the war, but what I do know is that you guys are over there for us and for that I am grateful. So here's a shout out from Texas..we love ya and we are praying for you..

[Tabz]

Thanks for all this information... God's best.

[Sgt. H. Rock]

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[Enlightenment]

On commenter mentioned the Pearl Harbor attack. My post is about the modern-day "Pearl Harbor attack" that we know as 9/11. It is very important so please bear with me.

One thing that struck me as odd in the days after 9/11 was Bush saying "We will not tolerate conspiracy theories [regarding 9/11]". Sure enough there have been some wacky conspiracy theories surrounding the events of that day. The most far-fetched and patently ridiculous one that I've ever heard goes like this: Nineteen hijackers who claimed to be devout Muslims but yet were so un-Muslim as to be getting drunk all the time, doing cocaine and frequenting strip clubs decided to hijack four airliners and fly them into buildings in the northeastern U.S., the area of the country that is the most thick with fighter bases. After leaving a Koran on a barstool at a strip bar after getting shitfaced drunk on the night before, then writing a suicide note/inspirational letter that sounded like it was written by someone with next to no knowledge of Islam, they went to bed and got up the next morning hung over and carried out their devious plan. Nevermind the fact that of the four "pilots" among them there was not a one that could handle a Cessna or a Piper Cub let alone fly a jumbo jet, and the one assigned the most difficult task of all, Hani Hanjour, was so laughably incompetent that he was the worst fake "pilot" of the bunch. Nevermind the fact that they received very rudimentary flight training at Pensacola Naval Air Station, making them more likely to have been C.I.A. assets than Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. So on to the airports. These "hijackers" somehow managed to board all four airliners with their tickets, yet not even ONE got his name on any of the flight manifests. So they hijack all four airliners and at this time passengers on United 93 start making a bunch of cell phone calls from 35,000 feet in the air to tell people what was going on. Nevermind the fact that cell phones wouldn't work very well above 4,000 feet, and wouldn't work at ALL above 8,000 feet. But the conspiracy theorists won't let that fact get in the way of a good fantasy. That is one of the little things you "aren't supposed to think about". Nevermind that one of the callers called his mom and said his first and last name, more like he was reading from a list than calling his own mom. Anyway, when these airliners each deviated from their flight plan and didn't respond to ground control, NORAD would any other time have followed standard operating procedure (and did NOT have to be told by F.A.A. that there were hijackings because they were watching the same events unfold on their own radar) which means fighter jets would be scrambled from the nearest base where they were available on standby within a few minutes, just like every other time when airliners stray off course. But of course on 9/11 this didn't happen, not even close. Somehow these "hijackers" must have used magical powers to cause NORAD to stand down, as ridiculous as this sounds because total inaction from the most high-tech and professional Air Force in the world would be necessary to carry out their tasks. So on the most important day in its history the Air Force was totally worthless. Then they had to make one of the airliners look like a smaller plane, because unknown to them the Naudet brothers had a videocamera to capture the only known footage of the North Tower crash, and this footage shows something that is not at all like a jumbo jet, but didn't have to bother with the South Tower jet disguising itself because that was the one we were "supposed to see". Anyway, as for the Pentagon they had to have Hani Hanjour fly his airliner like it was a fighter plane, making a high G-force corkscrew turn that no real airliner can do, in making its descent to strike the Pentagon. But these "hijackers" wanted to make sure Rumsfeld survived so they went out of their way to hit the farthest point in the building from where Rumsfeld and the top brass are located. And this worked out rather well for the military personnel in the Pentagon, since the side that was hit was the part that was under renovation at the time with few military personnel present compared to construction workers. Still more fortuitous for the Pentagon, the side that was hit had just before 9/11 been structurally reinforced to prevent a large fire there from spreading elsewhere in the building. Awful nice of them to pick that part to hit, huh? Then the airliner vaporized itself into nothing but tiny unidentifiable pieces no bigger than a fist, unlike the crash of a real airliner when you will be able to see at least some identifiable parts, like crumpled wings, broken tail section etc. Why, Hani Hanjour the terrible pilot flew that airliner so good that even though he hit the Pentagon on the ground floor the engines didn't even drag the ground!! Imagine that!! Though the airliner vaporized itself on impact it only made a tiny 16 foot hole in the building. Amazing. Meanwhile, though the planes hitting the Twin Towers caused fires small enough for the firefighters to be heard on their radios saying "We just need 2 hoses and we can knock this fire down" attesting to the small size of it, somehow they must have used magical powers from beyond the grave to make this morph into a raging inferno capable of making the steel on all forty-seven main support columns (not to mention the over 100 smaller support columns) soften and buckle, then all fail at once. Hmmm. Then still more magic was used to make the building totally defy physics as well as common sense in having the uppermost floors pass through the remainder of the building as quickly, meaning as effortlessly, as falling through air, a feat that without magic could only be done with explosives. Then exactly 30 minutes later the North Tower collapses in precisely the same freefall physics-defying manner. Incredible. Not to mention the fact that both collapsed at a uniform rate too, not slowing down, which also defies physics because as the uppermost floors crash into and through each successive floor beneath them they would shed more and more energy each time, thus slowing itself down. Common sense tells you this is not possible without either the hijackers' magical powers or explosives. To emphasize their telekinetic prowess, later in the day they made a third building, WTC # 7, collapse also at freefall rate though no plane or any major debris hit it. Amazing guys these magical hijackers. But we know it had to be "Muslim hijackers" the conspiracy theorist will tell you because (now don't laugh) one of their passports was "found" a couple days later near Ground Zero, miraculously "surviving" the fire that we were told incinerated planes, passengers and black boxes, and also "survived" the collapse of the building it was in. When common sense tells you if that were true then they should start making buildings and airliners out of heavy paper and plastic so as to be "indestructable" like that magic passport. The hijackers even used their magical powers to bring at least seven of their number back to life, to appear at american embassies outraged at being blamed for 9/11!! BBC reported on that and it is still online. Nevertheless, they also used magical powers to make the american government look like it was covering something up in the aftermath of this, what with the hasty removal of the steel debris and having it driven to ports in trucks with GPS locators on them, to be shipped overseas to China and India to be melted down. When common sense again tells you that this is paradoxical in that if the steel was so unimportant that they didn't bother saving some for analysis but so important as to require GPS locators on the trucks with one driver losing his job because he stopped to get lunch. Hmmmm. Yes, this whole story smacks of the utmost idiocy and fantastical far-fetched lying, but it is amazingly enough what some people believe. Even now, five years later, the provably false fairy tale of the "nineteen hijackers" is heard repeated again and again, and is accepted without question by so many Americans. Which is itself a testament to the innate psychological cowardice of the American sheeple, i mean people, and their abject willingness to believe something, ANYTHING, no matter how ridiculous in order to avoid facing a scary uncomfortable truth. Time to wake up America.

[John Ryan]

The American people no longer support the war in Iraq

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