"We can't see those yellow ribbons from here.

[flvegan]

A matter of survival, GEORGE SPRAGUE, Balad, Iraq - Letter

October 28. 2004 8:07AM

When I was home in New Hampshire on leave last month, a lot of people approached me to tell what a good job we're doing here in Iraq.

I appreciate the support, but I don't need the media or those people to tell me what I see every day. We are not getting the job done.

People ask me, "How's it going over there?" Cities have been overrun and are in a state of lawlessness. My job brings me into the streets. I see these things as they happen. They aren't just headlines for me. All we are doing here is treading water, and at this rate we can't keep afloat much longer. I'm just a simple man, but I can see that everything this administration has done with Iraq has been dead wrong.

We appreciate your support, but we can't see those yellow ribbons from here. I ask that you let your vote show your support. I don't know what you go to bed thinking, but I go to bed wondering not how many more years of this administration I can handle but how many more days I might survive.

GEORGE SPRAGUE
Balad, Iraq

(The writer, who lives in Hillsboro, is a member of a National Guard unit serving at Camp Anaconda, a large logistical support area about 45 miles north of Baghdad.)

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041028/REPOSITORY/410280355&SearchID=73188412774667

[deadparrot]

1. This gets to me more than this election does.

These people shouldn't have to go through this. Thye should be home with their families instead of fighting a make believe war for make believe reasons.