One Soldier's Life...
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One Soldier's Life...
With the number of fallen service men and women in Iraq having surpassed 3000 as we begin 2007, I found this story particularly poignant this morning.
God bless the souls of all who have fallen...as well as those fortunate enough to return, but who must forever live with the haunting emotional and physical scars that mark the dark proclivities of human conflict.
Jordan W. Hess was the unlikeliest of soldiers.
He could bench-press 300 pounds and then go home and write poetry. He learned the art of glass blowing because it seemed interesting and built a computer with only a magazine as his guide. Most recently, he fell in love with a woman from Brazil and took up digital photography, letting both sweep his heart away.
Specialist Hess, the seventh of eight children, was never keen on premonitions, but on Christmas of 2005, as his tight-knit family gathered on a beach for the weekend, he told each sibling and parent privately that he did not expect to come home from Iraq.
He could bench-press 300 pounds and then go home and write poetry. He learned the art of glass blowing because it seemed interesting and built a computer with only a magazine as his guide. Most recently, he fell in love with a woman from Brazil and took up digital photography, letting both sweep his heart away.
Specialist Hess, the seventh of eight children, was never keen on premonitions, but on Christmas of 2005, as his tight-knit family gathered on a beach for the weekend, he told each sibling and parent privately that he did not expect to come home from Iraq.
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That's soo sad but true, there are so many issues why not as why to fight something that will Never end. Just take the Nukes out of the senerio and leave them be. And bring Everyone home. or is it to justify the money being spent, are people really expendible.
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