Bring Our Troops Home...Blog Launch

Will let it's first post speak for itself...

American Trainers Slaughtered By Aghanistan Troops as Cborg Robotics War Heats Up

First, welcome to the temporary home of Troops Home.org...we hope to launch a full blown web site once some operating funds come in.

On MSNBC this morning, it was announced that two USA troops had been killed in Afghanistan this past Friday by Afghanistan Taliban Troops...this does not bode well moving forward.

March 29th, 2009 11:01 pm
Trainers killed by Afghan soldier identified

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The U.S. military has identified two trainers killed Friday by an Afghan National Army soldier.

Lt. Florence B. Choe, 35, of El Cajon, Calif., and Lt. j.g. Francis L. Toner IV, 26, of Narragansett, R.I., died Friday when the insurgent opened fire on personnelassigned to Combined Security Transition Command — Afghanistan at Camp Shaheen in Mazar-E-Sharif, Afghanistan.

Since the invasion of Iraq, have done a good job of supporting our troops even if I did not support the war, or Bush's decision to fight it...I am reaching a point where I am no longer sure I can continue to SUPPORT our troops. Re-enlistment according to news reports is up, which means these soldiers are now willingly doing three, four, even five tours (this excludes those who through stop gap are being forced against their will to serve). Worse, many of them are encouraging young men and women to enlist...that is an unforgivable sin.

It is disturbing to see Barack Obama embracing the same concepts of Nation Building that tainted the Bush years...it is policy I do not, cannot and will not agree with. It is not the place of America to be out spreading Freedom, it is a waste of both American blood and treasure we as a nation cannot afford to spend. We have our own insurgency on our Southern Border, we have over 12 million illegal alien insurgents, sleeper cells infesting and weakening the very fabric of America right here at home, need our troops here protecting America, rather than dying in some foreign land. I want to see our Soldiers home on leave speaking up against a wrong policy, a wrong war, do not want them speaking out in our schools and on college campuses encouraging our young men and women to enlist...it amounts to Death Recruiting, lying in the name of Satan himself...honorable men do not encourage our children to sacrifice their lives for wrong wars.

At 53, history begins to repeat itself, the images of Vietnam War protests flickering across my mind as a restless Main Street wrestles with themselves, wanting to support our troops, growing weary of never ending conflict. With the launching of this blog, with the purchase of the Domain Name http://www.troopshome.org/ I have made up my own mind...the time has come to pull the plug, the time has come to organize the opposition, unite with those who oppose this American Aggression.

Days Like This Make Me Feel Old

It's hard to admit but youth, as they say, has passed me by leaving in its wake a feast of memories, some more bittersweet than others in their rememberance. Watched Paul Harvey (a rerun) on Larry King...two Icons from so long ago, and now one of them has passed to the great beyond, and I am saddened at the loss of someone who was such a part of my life for so many years. Larry King asked him if he had a favorite, "and now for the rest of the story" segment. I have my own.

Years ago I was driving across the Pennsylvania Turnpike on the way home from a crafts show. It was late night, and reception was limited to just two AM stations, one of them playing Gospel Music, the other one bringing me the distinctive voice of Paul Harvey as he delived the news.

He explained that college women (I think he used the phrase girls) found middle aged men attractive. I was in my late 30's then, and felt pretty good at this bit of GOOD NEWS as he went to commercial break.

After doing his pitch for some product I don't remember, he came back with his famous, "and now for the rest of the story" line followed by the explanation that College Aged women believed middle age was 31. OUCH...that one hurt, and recalling that late night news piece, the times I have shared that story with friends still makes me smile. The older we get, the more it seems that our heroes have passed to the great beyond...perhaps you know it is your own time when you can remember no hereos that are still with the living.

At 53 I know I still have a lot of good years in front of me, but sitting here typing away, thinking about Paul Harvey and many of the other great Americans that have passed before him during my life time, I cannot help but feel just a little bit over the hill. As Red Skelton used to say, "Good Night, and may God Bless."