Kellie at Hilltop Academy hosts Flashback Fridays. Sometimes I'll think for quite a while for something to share. Sometimes I'm inspired, sometimes not. I wasn't feeling very inspired tonight until I saw this video from youtube. As always, check your sources wih what you see/hear. A lot of people were in arms that a public school teacher could be so biased politically in her classroom. I wasn't. SHe says the video was edited to make her look bad. I'm sure there is some truth in that, although what was shown was incriminating enough. Maybe the edits helped her.

All this being said, I'm not writing about the election results. What's done is done. I didn't vote for Obama . I have a variety of reasons. To some I'm narrow minded. To my more liberal christian friends, I just haven't been enlightened to what being like Jesus is all about. To some I'm sure I'm a racist, although I think my non caucasian friends would disagree.

What I am writing about is young lady who was "about  to cry"  ( her words ) because her teacher told her that her dad could be in Iraq for hundred years.

Nobody likes this war. Let me say this again for my liberal readers. Nobody. likes. this. war. Not that little girl, not her family, not any military family. Not anybody who did not vote for Obama. War is hell. Not just for the soldier but for the family as well. Knowing someone who has "been there"or reading a blog about it is not the same as living it.

Our nation is forgetting that there are real people inside those uniforms...

They have real families...

that have to learn how to live this new life without their loved one. For us, it was life without Dad. Birthdays and holidays at Grandma's so they would hopefully be distracted from their sadness that Dad wasn't there...

That was about as big as Bear's smile got that year.

They need to know and understand that these children worry a lot about their loved one. They hear everything that is said. They will also do what they can to identify with the loved one. They are often scared to death they will forget what they look like.

These are real children, just like the little girl whose Dad was in the Army in N.Carolina.

These are my children. We have lived that life. Sometimes still live it and prepare the next time time we have to live it. 

Earlier today Bear asked me why we had to spend so much time studying history. I explained to him how history repeats itself and that we should learn from it. Both good and bad.

This is so true. I was just a baby at the end of the Vietnam war but I have seen the effects of the way they were treated. I also see the potential for that to happen again. Of course they'll be more PC about it, but it will be there. Americans have become too accustomed to soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen being gone. Another relationship taken for granted. When will we learn?

The next time you want to complain about the soldiers, call them names, call them unChrist -like, remember they are the ones who are standing guard so you can sleep at night.

And Ms. Diatha Harris, you should be ashamed of yourself.