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U.S. Troops' Last Letters From Iraq - Newsweek/MSNBC.com
We got the new Newsweek yesterday, and this article was a reprint of four letters sent home from soldiers that died in Iraq.
I'm not a cryer. It takes a lot for me to just bust up and start bawling, and a national news story might break me up every two years or so.
Reading these letters broke me down in about five minutes. I don't know these guys, I don't know their families, I can't even imagine how that loss feels.
I felt helpless and somehow complicit in their deaths-- like I didn't do something right, or I didn't call my representatives in congress and scream enough in 2003 or something.
The US needs to end this war and stop buying foreign oil. As a big "FU" to the war, start walking everywhere and start taking public transportation. Sacrifice something, for god's sake. Fight this in your own way if it offends you. It offends me. I walk a lot. My husband and I bought a really efficient MPG car, not from the big three automakers who are also in on this war. I will start looking into what companies are also defense contractors and stop doing business with them. I was doing some stuff right before, but now I'm going to do as much as I can in my stupid daily life to not support this immoral war.
We got the new Newsweek yesterday, and this article was a reprint of four letters sent home from soldiers that died in Iraq.
I'm not a cryer. It takes a lot for me to just bust up and start bawling, and a national news story might break me up every two years or so.
Reading these letters broke me down in about five minutes. I don't know these guys, I don't know their families, I can't even imagine how that loss feels.
I felt helpless and somehow complicit in their deaths-- like I didn't do something right, or I didn't call my representatives in congress and scream enough in 2003 or something.
The US needs to end this war and stop buying foreign oil. As a big "FU" to the war, start walking everywhere and start taking public transportation. Sacrifice something, for god's sake. Fight this in your own way if it offends you. It offends me. I walk a lot. My husband and I bought a really efficient MPG car, not from the big three automakers who are also in on this war. I will start looking into what companies are also defense contractors and stop doing business with them. I was doing some stuff right before, but now I'm going to do as much as I can in my stupid daily life to not support this immoral war.
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