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Show MARCH 1,2007 THE GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER HOPE R I D E S A L O N E By Eddie Jeffers Page 10 ANTIMONY NEWS ...by Betty Wiley I stare out into the darknessfrommy cause it's against the rules. I can only the military or the family member of a post, and I watch the city burn to the imagine the horrors a military Chaplain servicemember, its life as usuaL.the war We are so glad the wind has gone ground. I smell the familiar smells, I walk would experience at the hands of the doesn't affect you. down but it did bring in a little bit if snow. But it affects us. And when it is over, through the familiar rubble, and I look at enemy. The enemy slinks in the shadHopfully much more snow will be comthe frightened faces that watch me pass ows and fights a coward's war against and the troops come home, and they try ing down in the mountains. down the streets of their neighborhoods. us. It is effective though, as many men to piece together what's left of them afFred and Judy Zobel have their first My nerves hardly rest; my hands are and women have died since the start of ter their servicc.where will the detracgreat-grandchild, a boy, born in Indisteady on a device that has been given this war. And the memory of their ser- tors be then? Where will the Cindy to me from my government for the pur- vice to America is tainted by the incon- Sheehans be to comfort and talk to sol- ana. Congratulation to you two and hope siderate remarks on our nation's news diers and help them sort out the last they will bring the baby here to see you ; gos&oflaking the lives of others. ' I sta&t, and I aj>tired. .My, back aches outlets. And every day, the enemy couple years of their lives, most ofwhich or else you two will be making a trip to from theloadsT carry. Young American changes...only now, the enemy is becom- have been spent dodging death and wad- see this little boy. boys look to me to direct them in a man- ing something new. The enemy is ing through the deaths of their friends? Sandy Daly has been upfromLas ner that will someday allow them to see transitioning from the Muslim extrem- They wilPbe where they always are, Vegas to check on her house in Angle. their families again...and yet, I too, am ists to Americans. The enemy is becom- somewhere far away, where the hor- Marion Cox is taking care of her place just a boy....my age not but a few years ing the very people whom we defend rors of the world can't touch them. for her as Sandy's parents are not domore than that of the ones I lead. I am with our lives. And they do not realize it. Somewhere where they can complain ing very good and are not able to be stressed, I am scared, and 1 am But in denouncing our actions, denounc- about things they will never experience brought up here. paranoid...because death is everywhere. ing our leaders, denouncing the war we in their lifetime; things that the young Our girl's basketball team seemed It waits for me, it cadis to mefromaround live andfight,they are isolating the mili- men and women of America have willto have had a bad week as they didn't street corners and windows, and it is al- tary from society...and they are becom- ingly taken upon their shoulders. ing our enemy. win their tournament. ways there. We are the hope of the Iraqi people. I noticed the river water has been Democrats and peace activists like They want what everyone else wants in There are the demons that follow me, turned down so it must be going into and tempt me into thoughts and actions to toss the word "quagmire" around and life: safety, security, somewhere to call that are not my own...but that are nec- compare this war to Vietnam. In a way home. They want a country that is safe the canal and on into the Otter Creek essary for survival. Tve made compro- they are right, this war is becoming like to raise their children in. Not a place Lake for water storage in the lake for mises with my humanity. And I am not Vietnam. Not the actual war, but in the where their children will be abducted, the future water use. alone in this. Miles from me are my isolation of country and military. America raped, and murdered if they do not comVan and Betty Wiley traveled to brethren in this world, who walk in the is not a nation at war; they are a nation ply with the terrorists demands. They Provo, Utah for their checkups on same streets...who feel the same things, with its military at war. Like it or not, we want to live on, rebuild and prosper. And Wednesday. Roma W. Henrie met them are here, some of us for our second, or America has given them the opportu- at the clinic and we visited awhile, we whether they admit to it or not. And to think, I volunteered for this... third times; some even for their fourth nity, but only if we stay true to the cause, had lunch and then came back home. | AricTraTrn ignorant to the rest of the a~nd so on. Americans are so concerned ,and see it to its end. But the country Van had another shot in his lower back now with politics, that it is interfering with must unite in this endeavor...we cannot wdrlcL'or so I thought. place the burden on our military alone. and it should But even thousands of miles away, our war. help his pain over a period of time. in Ramadi, Iraq, the cries and screams Terrorists cut the heads off of Ameri- We*must all stand up and fight, whether In cleaning out some old books, etc. and complaints of the ungrateful reach can citizens on the internet...and there in uniform or not. And supporting us is from the church library, they gave me more than sticking yellow ribbon stickme. In a year, I will be thrust back into is no outrage, but an American soldier ers on your cars. It's supporting our an old book, asking if I would like it and society from a life and mentality that kills an Iraqi in the midst of battle, and President, our troops and our cause. course I said yes. When I opened the doesn't fit your average man. And then, there are investigations, and sometimes I will be alone. And then, I will walk down soldiers are even jailed...for doing their Right now, the burden is all on the Ameri- cover of this old music song book writcan soldiers. Right now, hoperidesalotie. ten in pencil in the very back hardcover the streets of America, and see the yel- job. low ribbon stickers on the cars of the It is absolutely sickening to me to But it can change, it must change. Be- was pencil written copy of the Memosame people who compare our Presi- think our country has come to this. Why" cause there is only failure and darkness rial Service held on June 8,1919 for the dent to Hitler. are we so obsessed with the bad news? ahead for us as a country, as a people, if Memorial Service held for Thomas E. it doesn't. I will watch the television and watch Why will people stop at nothing to be Ricketts, George E. Jolley and Sister the Cindy Sheehans, and the Al against this war, no matter how much Let's stop all the political nonsense, Aurella Smoot who died during the epiFrankens, and the rest of the ignorant evidence of the good we've done is let's stop all the bickering, let's stop all demic of Influenza. Some of you might sheep ofAmerica spout off their mouths thrown in their face? When is the last the bad news, and let's stand and fight! be interested if this is your geneology about a subject they know nothing about. time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported Isn't that what America is about any- line. It is their right, however, and it is a right the opening of schools and hospitals in way? that is defended by hundreds of thou- Iraq? Or the leaders of terror cells besands of boys and girls scattered across ing detained or killed? It's all happening, the world, farfromhome. I use the word but people will not let up their hatred of boys andgirls^&ecfause that's whatthey Bush. They will ignore the good news, LENDER are,.In the Anhyfthe average age of the because it just might show people that infantryman is nineteen years old. The Bush was right. ' average rank of soldiers killed in action America has lost its will to fight. It is Private First Class. has los.t its will to defend what is right People like Cindy Sheehan are igno- and just in the world. The crazy thing of "Giving You A Better Option For Your Mortgage Needs" rant. Not just to this war, but to the re- it all is that the American people have Free Prequalifications - Give us a call. sults oftheir idiotic ramblings, or at least not even been asked to sacrifice a single Wayne Ott I hope they are. They don't realize its thing. It's not like World War Two, where - Construction Loans, - laterest Only Loans 435-590-6082 effects on this war. 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