An Open Letter to our Service Men and Women in Harm’s Way
Dear Members of the Armed Services,
We share your frustration with the MSM’s portrayal of both the fight and the fighters for our freedom there in the Middle East - Iraq and Afghanistan. If we could only organize concentrated, consolidated marches or other visible signs of support for you, I would be there.
I try to read as many books as I can like No True Glory and read as many articles (Michael Yon) as I have time to be up-to-speed with what you are going through over there. I tell you, if I were younger, I would join you! Thank God for Michelle Malkin and so many others who are champions for you back here at home.
As it is, I pray with my church and on my own for your safety and commend you to our loving Father as often as I can. When I was in the airport a couple of years ago, I had the waitress bring the check over to me for me to pay for a group of about 7 soldiers on their way over there. It’s nothing, though. I wish so much to do more, and I will as I’m able.
And I will defend your valor, honor, and courage to anyone who speaks a word against you and what you are doing for us.
God Bless you and your family in the highest way,
Love,
the Coffeehouse Blogger
Stolen from Michelle Malkin’s website:
Milblogger project: Send an e-mail of support
Grim at Blackfive interviewed Col. Simcock of Regimental Combat Team 6. The colonel asked Americans to send letters of support to RCT-6:
GRIM: Is there anything that you and your Marines need that we could send you?
COL. SIMCOCK: (Chuckles.) I’ll tell you what, the one thing that all Marines want to know about — and that includes me and everyone within Regimental Combat Team 6 — we want to know that the American public are behind us. We believe that the actions that we’re taking over here are very, very important to America. We’re fighting a group of people that, if they could, would take away the freedoms that America enjoys.
If anyone — you know, just sit down, jot us — throw us an e- mail, write us a letter, let us know that the American public are behind us. Because we watch the news just like everyone else. It’s broadcast over here in our chow halls and the weight rooms, and we watch that stuff, and we’re a little bit concerned sometimes that America really doesn’t know what’s going on over here, and we get sometimes concerns that the American public isn’t behind us and doesn’t see the importance of what’s going on. So that’s something I think that all Marines, soldiers and sailors would like to hear from back home, that in fact, yes, they think what we’re doing over here is important and they are in fact behind us.
Thanks to the Blackfive team’s efforts so far, 1,700 e-mails have come in.
Help them out. There are 6,000 members of RCT-6. Send your e-mail of support to:
RCT-6lettersfromh@gcemnf-wiraq.usmc.mil
(CC your e-mail to me at writemalkin@gmail.com so I can print a selection.)
Check out the combat team’s blog here.
Posted: June 21st, 2007 under Regular Blog Entries.
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