What will we do for those who protect us?

During our Revolutionary War days, Gen. George Washington could identify the enemy. He had on a red uniform. And so it has been in every war. The enemy could be easily identified. If an enemy soldier were captured behind lines, he was executed as a spy.

Today, we are fighting an enemy that declared war on us many years ago, even before we knew a war was going on. In this war on terrorism, our existence as a nation is being threatened. Many of our supposed friends are supplying our enemies with everything needed to prosecute the war. It is very confusing.

As our friends and neighbors and our relatives have volunteered to fight in this war, many do not return in the same physical or mental or emotional condition in which they left. They suffer damage to or loss of their lives so that we can go about our lives as if everything were normal.

As Winston Churchill is reported to have said about the English pilots: “Never have so many owed so much to so few.” The question is what are we doing to give aid and comfort to these “few?”

Frederick Steinbron

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