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March 05, 2006

From a Soldier's Perspective

A Soldier's Perspective:

"Associated Press KOKOMO, Ind. -- Police posted an around-the-clock security watch at the home of an Indiana soldier killed last week in Iraq after it was vandalized and his family received disturbing phone calls.

The home of Sgt. Rickey Jones was egged Saturday, three days after Jones' family learned the 21-year-old and three other soldiers had been killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad. His family also received phone calls in which the caller said: "I'm glad your son is dead."

As an American, I feel that it is my duty to speak out against those who would seek to dishonor our soldiers who are in harm's way, protecting our freedoms. The people harassing our soldiers and their mourning families may think their attempts at dissent? are acts of patriotism, but they are acts of cowardice and ignorance instead.

Our soldiers will answer any call to duty we present them with, in defense of our homeland and our allies. Cowards like this reveal a small segment of our population whose only sense of duty is to the destruction of everything this country stands for. Will we answer the call, just as our soldiers have done? Most of us have already met the call to support our soldiers and their families, but it appears that it has now come to answering the call to actively defend our own here at home.

All of our soldiers and their families here at home are in my thoughts this morning. Sharing this along with similar stories, and joining the letter writing campaign in support of this family is the least we can do.

A tip of the hat to Gribbit's Word for this story.

Technorati Tags: National Defense, freedom of speech, Homeland Security, military, Patriotism

Posted by capecodcyclist at March 5, 2006 08:06 AM

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