there will never be any way that any of us could ever repay you. thankyou from the bottom of my heart. you have my undying gratitude. thankyou thankyou thankyou...

GOD BLESS EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN THERE AND IS THERE!!! This is what EVERYONE should be aware of!!!!!!!!!!

To those in harms way -- Thanks for YOUR SERVICE.

That is the best write up ever. Thank you for posting. It was worth reading every bit of it.

Tim

Wow! For someone that was never in the service, this gives us just a taste of what you men and women are going thru, so we can enjoy the freedoms we have here in this country of ours. From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU, and every one of your brothers and sisters fighting for us.
My prayers are with you always.
J. O'Neil

My son did 3 tours in Iraq from the start. Everything thats wrote is true from all his emails/letters I recieved and from his pictures/videos I have.

What an awesome job in summarizing the experience of the sandbox! Thanks for sharing. Means alot to those of us who served over there.

All i can say is thanks. All are soldiers still fighting the fight God bless you. I served in Iraq and when i read this it brought back alot of feelings. It brought back memories some good some bad but it really hit home. That post cant explain it any better.

Thank you.My war was in a diff. place,diff. time,diff. circumstance,yet exactly the same. God bless our military
Mike

Thank you and "God Bless Our Troops"

I can not put to words what I felt when I read that except to say thank you and to a degee I can understand. Please be safe.

sounds like you were in the same places i was at the same times.

man, that was 7 years ago and yet it feels like last week. i ask myself if the thoughts will fade, sometimes it feels like it was a dream. stuff was so messed up over there i tell myself that it could'nt really have happend that way, yet i know it did. "war" for anyone who has not experanced it is something of an paralax. something as little boy;s we play, as young men we perpair for it. we get out minds right and go into it head first. then we relize that with all the preperation we have done, you do not know how you will react when that first bullet, mortor, rocket or IED comes close to you. some talk the talk and when the crap hits the fan they fold. others that you thought were total poo bags are the ones standing next to you in a firefight returning fire with you.

i have heard, smelled, seen and done things that i have not talked about to anyone since those days. im not ashamed but who would understand if they wernt there?

we play war,perpair for war, train for war, write wills incase we dont come home from war, but they do not perpair you for when you do come home from war..at least not real well. there is a system in place for vets to get help but there are holes in it, big holes.

i know guys that have come back to go on to become firemen, policemen, CEO's, raise a family others fall into a whiskey jug or go into the penil system, other close freinds have killed their selves because they could not cope in the real world anymore.

bottom line is fellas, most times, the "war" that doorkicker has decribed so well does not end when they get off the plane from SW Asia.

let us not forget our standing, our fallen, ours waiting in line to take their watch and the ones that have done their duty and need the same support.

It is at times a bit hard to remember the mission was to drain the swamp when your up to your [beeep] in alligators to those who have served my hats off and I wish you nothing but beans and franks

Well what is the status of "Door kicker" now ? Did he make it home ? No doubt he's a very fine patriotic soldier ,shame we can't say that about his Commander in chief .