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| Debbie Brazil |
I am not a war widow but I have read countless number of articles and letters from those who have lost someone in the war. My heart hurts for each and everyone of them. I don't know what I can do so i wrote a poem. Not sure if it will help but maybe it can. God Bless All of You.
My World Has Changed
What do you say
when your world has changed
You look around
and see nothing but pain
Where do you go
to find some peace
Do you stay locked up
or do you walk the streets
How do you go on
from what's occurred
When every direction you turn
is crudely blurred
You think to yourself
I've got to go on
You know in your heart
you're not alone
There seems no reason
there seems no ryhme
You're just stuck here
in a space in time
For all of those
whose world has changed
Take it slowly
you're not to blame
Don't worry about your future
or trying to find a cure
Keep your mind open
and dont let it become obscure.
You only have to take it
one minute at a time
Deal with what you can
let this be your lifeline
Don't ever think
your pain don't matter
Cause if you believe this
your life is sure to shatter
And please don't worry
about what others say
Be true to yourself
and don't let them lead you astray
If you feel like crying
go ahead and cry
If you feel like living
just give it a try
You are the only one
who can give yourself life
And you are the only one
that has that power and might
Let this be
a prayer for you
That will always help
to carry you through.
By
Debbie Brazil
March 8, 2008
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3/8/2008 |
| dizzy |
wat the feedback |
2/19/2007 |
| f |
the secondrey thing thing have to think abo |
2/19/2007 |
| Tayla |
There is so much pain and anquish caused by war. My concern is mostly for the children of the soldiers who do not come home. There is a new book out that is for middle grade children that addresses the grief. It is a fiction novel by Janet Muirhead Hill. It relates so much to what the people in this article are dealing with.
If you need to reach your youngster who is grieving, try giving them a novel to read: "Danny's Dragon".
It is an awesome book. |
6/2/2006 |
| Diane |
Good...support them in your ways...good ways. Don't condemn them...that's all I've been trying to say!! I'm right there with you with wanting our troops out of there...that we never should have gone in there. |
12/31/2005 |
| kent |
Thank you Kevin, you put into words what I was trying to say. Diane, how can I support men and women who are murdering people because they were ordered to? Isn't there a code that soldiers live under to NOT obey an illegal order that is against US laws and the Geneva Conventions?? Isn't it their duty to disobey a direct order if it contravenes those laws? Of course if you don't obey, the military puts you in prison rather than arresting the officers and politicians who ordered (or, more often, "suggested/implied" without a paper trail) the aforementioned acts. Which is more courageous, killing because you're ordered to or telling the boss to drop dead and you won't do it? I guess going to prison is worse than murdering innocent people.
Do you really think that Lyndie England and the other low-level soldiers who've been scapegoated tortured without any oversight or behind-the-back hoo-rahing from their superiors?
Now we've dropped to the level of Osama and his nutcase murderers who also torture and kill the innocent. I cannot support this irregardless of how "un-patriotic" it may seem to be.
How about the Americans who are waterboarding "suspects" in secret prisons? Should they just say no, or do what they are ordered by their superiors to do? When will the soldiers say enough? What will it take for a person in uniform to have enough COURAGE to stop killing?
That's what it will take, mass refusal on the part of our troops to participate in murder any longer. In 'Nam they fragged the officers, and it happened more than reported. I wonder why there isn't more of this going on, or does the current crop of cannon fodder just not care?
As to supporting the troops, hasn't anyone read about the huge cuts in VA benefits/medical/mental, huge increases in Post Tramatic Stress in returning vets, closing of vet outreach sites, all the rest of the massive cuts to fund this outrage and give monsterous tax cuts to the super-wealthy who own the corporations who are taking wheelbarrows full to their off-shore bank? Why is the government frantically trying to NOT test for radioactivity in returning vets from the DU being used? Just like Bush 1 who also refused to test after GulfWar1 and now those vets are having deformed babies and are full of diseases caused by radioactivity. Just like 'Nam vets who are still committing suicide and suffering from all the Agent Orange diseases. We won't talk about all the little brown people in both hemispheres who are ALSO suffering with the same maladies.
There is no support for the troops from the people who sent them there. Period. And we, the poorer segment of the American population (80% make less than $50k a year) are expected to support them without question. I support them by wanting them out of there. I support them by saying we'd better be willing to fund VA medical and psycological screening. I support them by driving much less and going solar on my house and small business. I support them by being anti-Iraq invasion. |
12/31/2005 |
| Kevin |
Diane: you said "however; is that I support our soldiers. Just like anyone else that has a boss...they are doing what they are told to do".
Ok, let's assume that your boss ordered you to cheat in the financial books, so the company will pay less tax. Will you obey him? If you do, you will be charged and he will be charged as well. That is all try to convinece you with, Human, Ian, Kent, and Michael. If a human and decent soldier got an order to kill innocent people, he should not obey his boss. Otherwise he and his boss will be charged as war criminals. Covering our wrong actions with a multilayer excuses of patriotism, freedom, ...extra is unexplainable. |
12/31/2005 |
| Diane |
Thank you, Michael!! That was articulated very well!! You said that much better than I've been able to...I'm a bit more emotionally involved with this particular topic! I agree with you wholeheartedly with everything you said!!
There's no reason to hold this against our service members...they are doing as their told....aim higher...at the people that are really in control!!
Thank you again....it was a breath of fresh air to not read any more soldier bashing!!
Let's focus our energies into making sure that something like this NEVER happens again in our lifetime and the lifetimes of our children and grandchildren! There are NO winners in this situation. |
12/31/2005 |
| michael |
What bothers me is this president’s incompetence. First he campaigns for war; I mean he campaigns through out the country scaring the citizens of the need for war. He uses people's patriotism so that don't question or if they do they are label un-American, liberals and traitors; remember the Dixie chicks? Once the invasion begins, he doesn't have enough troops. The military doesn't secure vital and important cultural and inter-structure buildings, just the oil fields. No weapons are found so they lie and make up other excuses why we invade. Words like liberation, freedom, democracy flood into the News talk shows and official press conferences, its all c.y.a., WMD's is dropped and forgotten. The government has got us going and they know how to string us along because they have to, they have no other choice. There is no free press allowed in Iraq, you have to get press passes from the military, and reporters say they are afraid to report negatively about the situation because if they do the military will jerk their passes. The reason we can't leave Iraq is because a serious miscalculation in judgment was made, the Iraqi people didn't exactly throw roses at us. So the war becomes a meat grinder, one with no plan. Our soldiers are just standing around in the kill zone. I'm sorry for what happened to this young woman and her dedicated husband, I really am. But what I am really sorry for is how our government, of so called checks and balances, allowed this to happen in the first place. |
12/31/2005 |
| Diane |
Everyone still seems to be missing my point...I never said that I agreed with the war in Iraq. What I did say, however; is that I support our soldiers. Just like anyone else that has a boss...they are doing what they are told to do. I also agree that Osama is the threat...he's proven that many times over.
No war is pretty...nor did I want to see my husband or any of the others go over there to fight for something that truly yet to be disclosed...and the truth will probably never be known for a certainty to any of us.
I must disagree with one point that you made...you said, "...they send ignorant citizens who can't get decent jobs or education who join the military...." That's obviously not entirely the case....three of the most ignorant, uneducated "people" have responded to this letter! You'd think someone in their mid-50s would be a bit more understanding....sorry, almost forgot the ignorant, uneducated part!
As a matter of fact....as more of you "people" start coming out of the woodwork, I think that all of you should be put in charge....if you think that you could do a better job. Let's see how quick you would be to judge then!! |
12/31/2005 |
| kent |
"Freedom isn't free" but what do you do when it isn't "freedom" that your soldier husband is killing people for? What do you say when it's a fascist police state run for profit by corporations owned by a tiny percentage of incredibly wealthy Americans and they send ignorant citizens who can't get decent jobs or education who join the military because they are "patriotic" to invade and murder innocent people in another country? This is NOT a war, it is an unprovoked aggressive invasion of a country that did NOTHING to warrant this. The dictator that ran that country has been supported for decades by the same people who sent your husbands and wives and daughters and sons to Iraq. The latest guesstimate is over 180,000 dead Iraqis, ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND DEAD grandmas and uncles and sisters and mothers! What's a couple thousand dead US soldiers compared to that? A short guy with a mustache sent his "patriotic" army into neighboring countries 60 years ago and of course his soldiers were just "doing their duty" and "following orders" and "supported their country" just like you say the US soldiers are doing now. Please explain how killing innocent people in a country that did not attack us is supporting our country's freedom. Not much difference, is there? We just don't speak German...
My uncle didn't come home from 'Nam, and I received my draft notice in 1972. One of his last letters said to do anything, shoot off a toe, break my trigger finger, anything to not get sent there and see what he's seen and do what he's done. The men and women committing murder in Iraq (yes, murder) deserve to be immediately brought home and put into intensive therapy. They never should have been there in the first place. Remember, it was Osama from Saudi Arabia and a bunch of Egyptians and NOT Rumsfeld buddy Saddam who bombed us. And the Iraqi people DO NOT DESERVE to die just because our oil is under their sand. |
12/31/2005 |
| Diane |
Oh..I almost forgot...
Thank you so much for my insightful analysis, Ian!
I appreciate your kind words!
Have a wonderful, safe, free to do whatever you'd like New Year. Think about the price that is paid daily for you and your cohort to be able to be so.....well like you are.
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE!! |
12/31/2005 |
| Diane |
Ian, that is NOT what I said. I will reiterate one thing that I DID say...."this may not have been our battle to fight..." I understand that innocent people have been killed, and I may not agree with the war in Iraq. But with that being said, I support our SOLDIERS 1000%! Whether you or "A Human" chooses to believe it or not, most of the soldiers over there disagree also. What should this say to most people about our servicemembers? They all took an oath to protect and defend our country...our way of life....our freedom of speech, etc.....they've been given orders from their Commander in Chief (like it or not), and they are standing by what they promised to do. You have to admit...finding people with such character these days is becoming harder and harder every day!
So, domestic abuse in America has absolutely NOTHING to do with my post...your cohort mentioned about American men treating Muslim women poorly....they've been treated poorly for hundreds of years....though there are admittedly American men that are abusive.....this discussion was about Muslims. To answer your question, "Do I feel that American women who are abused deserve it?" I believe that every person has a choice (imagine that...but yet another freedom that our servicemembers insure that we have)...what people decide to do with their choices should not be used against other people. People can only do things that others allow them to do.
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12/31/2005 |
| Ian |
Thanks for the insightful analysis, Diane... America is in Iraq and has killed tens of thousands of Iraqis but it's all okay becaue Iraqi men treat their women poorly.
Try a Google search for the facts on domestic abuse in America, then tell us what, dearest Diane, is the plan? ...to liberate Iraqi women to the extent that 3/4 of them can be physically or sexually abused? Or perhaps, Diane, you feel that American women who are abused deserve it.
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12/31/2005 |
| Tom Ronaldi |
It makes me sick that warmonger bastard Bush talks about getting on with HIS life after having destroyed the lives of thousands of families. He doesn't care in the least about the families of the 2172 troops he has sent to their needless deaths. Bush will rot in hell. |
12/30/2005 |
| Diane |
First of all, to "A human," I've never used that term so loosely!! You are a disgrace to the rest of us HUMANS!! Thank God for these men and women who are dying every day for you to spout your vile, illiterate poison!! Whether one agrees with the war or not, how dare you!!!!! Maybe you should read (if you can) your history, it is not American soldiers that treat Muslim women poorly...it is the Muslim man...and the women allow themselves to be treated as such!! This may not have been our battle to fight, but we're in it for the "long haul" now. Thank God for you that you were cowardice enough to disguise your identity!!!
I agree that something should be in place to take care of these widows...I also agree that the Army has a bad habit of just forgetting about spouses during these times! We've come a long way from the terrible occurrences at Ft. Bragg....let's do something for the families that are left behind!
My thoughts and prayers are with all widows from this war!! I'm so sorry that you have to live with the "ultimate sacrifice!" From one proud Army wife!!!! |
12/30/2005 |
| Taze |
Thanks, for bring the anguish of our families home. Too many don't know or do not care. "Has America become immune to death?" |
12/30/2005 |
| A human |
Your husbend and all war widows' husbends killed innocent women and children and invaded a country that did nothing to US. Iraq had no WDM. Let me be frank, your husbend and all war widows' husbends are not really humans, we all saw them on TV sending hell on Iraqi people. We know about depleted Uranium bombs, Phosphorus bombs, chemical wepons used by US army against civilians in Falluga and other Iraqi cities. I realy wonder how you would cry for such men. Life is much better without them. I know my words will hurt you alot, but think, for God sake, one time more globally. Think outside your own graveness sorrow and think about the sorrow your husbend spred all over Iraq. Think how many innocents he killed, how many buildings he demolished, how many people he tortutred, and how many Muslim women he badly treated. Only then, the nife inside your heart will be pulled out, and you will not cry for such creatures. |
12/30/2005 |
| gopal |
a very truthful but sad article |
12/30/2005 | |
