Supporting Our Troops

Jason and I rented the movie "Taking Chance". It is about a Marine LtCol escorting the remains of Marine PFC Chance Phelps home to Wyoming. It is a completely gut wrenching, wonderful story. It seems that a lot of people- including me- forget sometimes that we have soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan among other places that are fighting and dying every day for us. Sons, Daughters, Brothers, Sisters, Fathers, Mothers....that go over there and never come home. Last summer while Jason and I were waiting for a flight out of Kansas City, we witnessed the unloading of a soldier off of an airplane. His fellow soldiers and family were standing around him, while everyone in the terminal, stood and watched, silent, through the windows. Men removed their hats, and we watched. I felt stupid and silly because I was sitting there complaining to my husband that we were still waiting on an airplane after 2 of our flights were cancelled, and there was this family, who had lost someone they loved. My brother is going back over there for his second tour in September. Please remember these men and women, say an extra prayer for them, and don't stop until they are all home.