Close your eyes
 

> Close your eyes
> >
> > I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at
> > Valley Forge, as he holds his musket in his bloody hands. He stands
> > barefoot in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded from months of
> > battle and emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his family
> > surrounded by nothing but death and carnage of war. He stands tough,
with
> > fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks at us now in anger
> and
> > disgust and tells us this...
> >
> > I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the Constitution and now
> your
> > children graduate too illiterate to read it.
> >
> > I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to vote and you
> > Stay at home because it rains.
> >
> > I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech and you
> > remain silent on critical issues, because it might be bad for business.
> >
> > I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you and it
has
> > stolen democracy from the people.
> >
> > It's the soldier not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the
> > press.
> >
> > It's the soldier not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech.
> >
> > It's the soldier not the campus organizer who allows you to
> demonstrate.
> >
> > It's the soldier who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin
is
> > draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!!
> >
> > "Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they
> > protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they
> perform for us in our time of need. Amen."
> >
> > Prayer Wheel: When you receive this, please stop for a moment and
say
> a
> > prayer for our U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan, and the ones facing
> > deployment to Iraq at this very moment - AND all over this world.
> > This can be very powerful. Just send this to all the people in your
> address book. Do not stop the wheel, please. Of all the gifts you could
> give a US Soldier, Prayer is the very best one.


I have a good friend going to Afghanistan Sunday.. sighs
I say a pray for him and each and everyone there now..
love ya
Your friend and God Bless,
Tina