I just got this email today and I though that I would share it with my readers as requested in the email to pass it on:
“John Gebhardt's wife, Mindy, said that this little girl's entire family was executed. The insurgents intended to execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head...but they failed to kill her. She was cared for in John's hospital and is healing up, but continues to cry and moan. The nurses said John is the only one who seems to calm her down, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both slept in that chair. The girl is coming along with her healing.He is a real Star of the war, and represents what America is trying to do.
James Gates U. S. Navy”
This picture shows me one thing that Americans are still Americans, full of compassion, honest and moral people regardless of the conduct of our Government. But please remember how our Government conducts itself is our personal representation of how the world perceives each and every American, immoral, compassionless nation full of greedy people. We know this is not true.
But the realities of the world also play into this picture. The Middle East has been at war with itself for thousands of years, and will remain in that state until the people of that region decide for themselves what they want. We can not force anything down their throats just as we would not allow anyone to do it to us. Additionally, our presence gives all sides of the issues a unilateral enemy to hate and until we leave, they will have no need to work it out for themselves and these types of pictures will continue.
