Notice the spelling too.;)
http://www.herald-democrat.com/articles/2007/01/29/letters/letter02.txtWe must fight in Iraq or on streets in U.S. In November 2004, the U.S. Marines launched an assault on Fallugha. Some, perhaps all, of the companies involved had reporters “imbedded” with the troops to post eyewitness reports. Our grandson, Capt. Read Omohumdro, was in command of Bravo Company, First Battalion, Eighth Marines. His company was the “spear point” of the assault. Imbedded with Bravo was Dexter Filkins, a New York Times reporter. Filkins posted an eyewitness story of the action of that battle. Newspapers and other media all over the country republished Filkins’ reports. After Dallas area television stations learned that the Captain’s mother, your youngest daughter, Virginia Ammons, lived in Hurst, reporters were to her home for on-camera interviews.
Our Marine came home in January 2005, but is now back in Iraq to train Iraqi soldiers and police to face up to the insurgency and gain control of the streets and alleyways of Baghdad and the lesser cities that are the battlefields of sectarian violence that threatens a fledging representative government that has not yet tasted the sweetness of liberty.
I am sick of the self-styled “experts” who spew their platitudes about what is and what is not the proper course of action to conclude this battle for the liberty that the common people of Iraq so richly deserve. Their unconscionable rhetoric, first claiming we did not have enough troops on the ground, then threatening to withhold funds for additional troops, cannot help but give aid to the enemy.
If those who claim to be capable leaders of this country cannot understand we have been at war with the Arab world since 1979, they are the problem rather than the solution. When U.S. Embassy personnel were held captive for 442 days and our embassies, ships and military personnel were attacked without provocation, that was war and continues as war. We are at war with Iraq. If we do as some suggest and remove our troops from Iraq, we will still be at war, except that it will intensify and we will see it in the cities and on the streets of this nation.
James W. Farris
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