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More in theatre extentions were announced today.
While I feel badly for every family with a member away from home, I feel particularly for the families of National Guard or Reservists. While they should have realized when they joined that they might get a long call-up, many didn't really believe it, and many have serious hardships at home with loss of salary, etc.
Those who have read my posts over the long haul might remember that I believe(d) that this is an ill conceived adventure that we shouldn't have done in the first place. However, now that we've started it -- we have to finish it. If we pull out now, as we did in Vietnam, it will be an invitation to disaster for Iraq. Listening to NPR over lunch, a senior fellow from the Brookings Institute said that we will probably be in Iraq until the end of the decade. A sobering thought.
From a different perspective, during World War Two, once you were in, you were in for the duration -- or until you were badly injured or killed. In some ways that probably made it better, because it didn't set up false hopes. Others have argued that those soldiers fought harder because they believed it would get them home sooner. I don't know if that's true or not, but during Vietnam the "30 days and a wakeup" mentality did make many (not all) much more careful and less agressive toward the end of the tour.
We continue to pray for the safe return of all of our magnificent fighting men and women.
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Fraternally,
DeltAlum
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The above is the opinion of the poster which may or may not be based in known facts and does not necessarily reflect the views of Delta Tau Delta or Greek Chat -- but it might.
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