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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Iraq has really pushed me to my limits; we
always have five things going on, plus our
mission. We continue to. do NCOPD (Non-
Commissioned Officer Professional
Development), Soldier/NCO of the Month
boards, Correspondence Courses, counsel-
ing, Army knowledge classes and physical
training to name just a few time-consuming
activities. I can see my break; it’s a mirage
and every time I. get close to it, it disappears.
" We went down to Tallil in southern Iraq
and it was by far my worst mission and we
didn’t even get attacked. We had to stay in
tents, that during the day were over 130
degrees and we traveled during the day and
since the A/C was not functioning in my
vehicle, I felt like I was suffocating. When
we tried to come back to LSA Anaconda we
were stopped at Camp Scania, because
Tampa (the main route-from Kuwait to
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'■'patriotism is enthusiastic and loyal sup-
l^port and love for one’s country.
A Patriotism can look like red, white,
and blue, the American flag being raised, a
man putting his hand over his heart in honor
of the flag, a coast guard helicopter, a sol-
dier dressed in his uniform, doing some-
thing good for someone else, saving some-
one’s life, keeping someone or many people
safe, or the space shuttle. For me, this repre-
sents many willing people coming together
’ to make our great country strong and power-
ful. This is E Pluribus Unum. E Pluribus
Unum is a Latin term meaning “out of
many, one.” For me, it means many coming
together, doing theSe things, to make
America' the great country that it is. These
things Americans do to make our country
great come from love for our country, brav-
ery, freedom, and liberty.
We cannot have patriotism without love
for our country. Love for our country is a
sacrifice or doing whatever it takes to do
what is right for your country. An example
of this is a dad who has to leave his wife,
his children, his job, his everything, his life,
to go to war to keep his life safe. Now, how
can he keep his life safe if he is going to
war? Because his wife, children, job, his
everything, is his life. Therefore, he is keep-
ing his life safe. He loves his life, and his
life is his country.'
Bravery is patriotic. You have to be brave
to shbw love. My great-grandfather was in
_ World War II. He was very brave. He had to
leave my Great-Gran and my Granddaddy
when he was a baby to go to war. He had to
see horrible things and know that he might
get hurt or worse. That is very brave. When
he came back from the war after three years,
he also had to come back to a normal life
and act like the horrors of war never hap-
pened. He had to protect peopl^he loved in
that way, too. Soldiers must be very brave in
war, and then stay brave for the rest of their
lives. -
Patriotism in our country comes from
freedom. Freedom is the ability to do any-
thing you want. Rosa Parks wanted freedom
when she was tired and wanted to rest in her
seat on a bus instead of moving to the back
of a bus so a man could sit in her seat. She
stayed strong fro her belief that she should
have that freedom, and was even arrested
for it. Marin Luther King, Jr. wanted all
people to be treated the same. It was his
dream. These two brave people reminded
everyone that our country is one of equal
freedom for everyone. Today everyone in
__our counfry has the freedom to be treated
the same. America was made for freedom.
There might be some who do not want
everyone to be free. Everyone needs to be
like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr.
and remember that freedom is for all
Americans.
Patriotism is also pure. Americans have
freedom to do whatever they want and we
choose what is good to make our country a
better place to live. People come together
doing their jobs and other good actions to
build our great country. Every day in our
country, Americans make right choices. Right
actions and choices are pure. This is liberty.
Liberty is pure. Therefore, it is patriotism.
Love, bravery, freedom, and liberty all ;
make patriotism. Patriotism needs all these
together, and they must all work together.
One cannot happen without the other.
Patriotism is many loving and brave
Americans who are fueled by freedom and
liberty. Americans doing this make our coun-
try the greatest on earth. “Out of many, one”
is “E Pluribus Unum.” I am one. You are one.
We all act as one, but come together, with
love, bravery, freedom and liberty. We are
patriotic when we come together in these
ways. Patriotism is in the little things that
work together to make the greatness of our
country. This is the United States of America.
Our love, bravery, freedom and liberty unite
our patriotism in “E Pluribus Unum.”
My son is in the U.S. Army, stationed at Fort
Sill, Okla. A number of months into his tour in
Iraq, at my request, he started ajournal,
which he shared with me and I want to share
it with you. He is 23 years old, born and
raised in Baytown.
Sgt. Nick Marshall’s Iraq Journal:
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Maybe swimming
lessons will help
Monday I had to call the City water
department about a water leak in my ,
ditch. Two young men came out with-
in an hour of my call!
Both were named David and they
were two of the most polite and well
mannered young men I have ever had
dealings with.They checked out the
problem,came up with a fix and
explained it all to me,
They even came back to check and
make sure the problem was fixed!
Thank you! I was feeling pretty good
about things until one of my neigh-
bors said, “Did you see the sign on
146 between Pet Manor and the
Railroad track?”
Well sure enough, there it was.
They are going to build houses there!
That makes Abby Addition right in
the very low middle of two housing
additions. Where will all the water
drain? Right on us!
Maybe the city planners are expect-
ing a severe drought? We are a small
little neighborhood and most of us
have been neighbors and friends for
many years.
We don't deserve this. Can the city
of Baytown help us?
Can Chambers County help? How
about the great state of Texas?
Everyone says it's the other ones
problem! Who at the city can tell me
what or how they can fix this so we
don't flood
They must have thought of a way
before they would allow new homer
to be built! While waiting for an
answer I will practice my swimming
and try and grow webbed feet and
some gills!
so when we saw the explosion we thought
maybe one of our gun trucks had hit it. Once
we got to Baghdad we stayed near the 172nd
Stryker brigade, the unit that was on the „
news for being extended. On the way back,"
we had to stop because the infantry was
clearing a town, trying to find the main guy
who builds lED’s in the area.
_ . Adjusting back to normal life will be a
turned around and came up to the vehicle in difficult task and will defiantly take some
time; especially driving... I catch myself
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started shooting rounds
from its main barrel. After
the fourth shot a large
explosion came from the-
area. They’d hit the vehi-
cle and I knew that in a
way, I had just seen some-
one die. I hope it was the
guys who had set the IED
out that hit us.
I had to help a soldier with
a problem I’d never
encountered before; his fiance back home
was pregnant with his baby. She’d had a cou-
pie of small seizures, but due to her seizure
medication affecting the baby she had
stopped. This caused her to have a grand
mall seizure. So she was forced with the
decision of taking the medication and possi-
bly killing the _baby,.or..not- taking it and
maybe killing herself. The soldier was
extremely stressed, as expected, so I took
him up to the chaplain and then to stress
control....
WaAvent down to Baghdad yesterday and
there was a lot going on in the streets; As we
went through 59A, the convoy in front of us
took small-arms fire that disabled one of
Turkey) was extremely dangerous. In a three- their vehicles, so we went around them and
hour span, it had five IED detonations, four headed south, but didn’t get much further as
possible lEDs, the Vemon/Sword EOD was detonating an IED that was near
Interchange near Baghdad had multiple RPG Camp Cooke. Once we got to Cooke, the
attacks and 59A had four cases of small roads went Code Red for more lED’s and we
arms fire. When we finally did leave, we had ended up waiting for about 2 hours until they
" ' ’ —■ f rn ‘ ~i would let us leave. As soon as we turned
up to a convoy that had been hit with a Onto the interchange near Baghdad, there --- ;
’ -- ' was a civilian vehicle completely burned up
from hitting an IED and we once again got
stuck behind EOD as they were blowing up
another road bomb. We didn’t know it until
hours until they cleaned it up and we went after the detonation that EOD was up there, -
back to LSA Anaconda. , ’ ’ • " •
Well, we just got back from Camp -
Spiecher and we lost another ASV (Ml 117
Guardian Armored Security Vehicle) to an
IED. Hajji had laid down some artillery
rounds with a small trip wire running across
the road. I was in Gun 5 and all I saw was a
bright flash of light. When this happened, an
Infantry patrol had been passing by and they
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front of me.
I was in the gunner’s hatch looking around watching trash and dirt piles even though
its .50 caliber machine gun. Over the radio
they report they are targeting a car speeding
away from the attack sight. I took my NVG’s
(night vision goggles) out to see if I could
see where the car was. I saw the top of the
car driving behind a wall and then the tank
School district is
leaving kids behind
Bravo! Kudos to you Jessica!
Barbers Hill School District is the
perfect school for the perfect child.
Too bad for you and your child if he
doesn't “fit.” I was happy to read that
• there is a teacher that really cares
about the kids that need some extra
help. I do not know Ms. HaM but
have heard nothing but praise of her
.teaching skills and success with “dif-
ferent” students. My son has
Tourettes Syndrome Plus which most ’1
of the teachers do not fully grasp the
emotional rollar coaster he is on.
Every year it is a battle to get him
help. The retort from one of the
teachers that the “modifications
become a crutch” are typical of many
(not all) of the teachers at BHISD,
they do not want to be bothered with
modifications. Please keep publish-
ing, maybe this is a way to help the
many kids left behind and the tears of
many parents to come.
Karen Bolmanskle
Baytown
Here's hoping another letter about
FM 565 will help to get something
done about the condition of the road^
,1 have traveled the road since 1968
and it has been reworked completely
one time in the early 1970s. Now it is
the worse I have ever seen.
The repaving that was done recent-
ly has caused the road to be in a
worse state than before. I have a low-
profile car and the rough surface and
no center stripe in some places makes
it treaterous in some places. At the
intersection of FM 565 and FM 1405
near the Bayer plant there were SO
' many holes in it where it was paved
to revert traffic, we lost a hubcap,
and bent a wheel to the point the tire
‘Tost air.
Also another complaint is the clos-
ing of FM 565 during the race week-
end. Have you ever heard of the state
closing a road for a private enter-
prise? I wonder who was paid off?
.BUM? It is our understanding that a
roadwas RfbebtHit from the race-
track to the Service ro'Srkof I-10 to
take care of the traffi'c.fhYO years
that hasn't happened eitherAThis is
another concern of how ouAax
money is being spent. \
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