Thinking

Please read through and then share your thoughts.

Below are listed the wars that the US has been involved in, year(s) of war, and total deaths per war.

The American Revolution 1775-1782.......... 4,435

The War of 1812.......... 2,260

Mexican American War.......... 13,283

The Civil War..........364,511

The Spanish American War.......... 2,446

World War I..........116,316

World War II.......... 405,399

Korean War.......... 36,995

Vietnam War.......... 58,151

Desert Storm.......... 382

Operation Enduring Freedom.......... 420.

Iraqi Freedom ..........3,688

total deaths of all US wars.......... 1,008,286

We have had much blood spilled. Forget the political agenda, but see these deaths as men and women who believed in our nation. They may not have been involved in the rights and wrongs of each war, as this is easy to judge after the fact. No, these deaths represent over one million people who stood before you and I when the chips were down and paid the ultimate price. Although it might be hard for some* to grasp the notion that people are needed to defend a homeland and its ideals, this is the case. So as you think about our nation, and its over 200 year history, only ONE MILLION soldiers maintained this right. They did die for purpose. They did die for something.

Now to my thinking. Please clear your mind for a moment before you go on. Please take ten seconds and close your eyes.

We have un-uniformed soldiers who have been killed while doing their sole job...Not for national freedom, not for border security, not to defend a nation being invaded, not because of terrorism...no, they are doing their job of developing and growing into a beautiful new life.

And WE HAVE ALLOWED THEM TO BE MURDERED for one word CHOICE.













Sadly it was not those in the wombs' CHOICE, but their Lady Liberty did not hold this beneath her breast:

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"(read more)

No the 'Lady Liberty' of these wee ones only held CHOICE and SELF under her bosom and not one lamp was lit and no one welcomed the refuse of her womb.

(c) Double Nickel Farm

Jennifer