Mailbag

Dear traveling soldier,

My young brother was sent to Iraq a few months ago. The conditions are not only dangerous due to being attacked, but his and all other soldiers’ health and psychological well-being are under serious threat!

We have been informed that he is no longer aloud to send or receive e-mail from anyone! He is allowed two ten-minute phone calls home per month and postal mail takes 3-4 weeks to send both ways. We as a family are completely cut off and are growing more and more helpless in the effort to send our support to help him through the most difficult time in his young life! His first child was born without his father on the 4th of July. He married only days before being shipped out. He is constantly being shifted around and in the dark about his orders until the moment declared.

I am actively trying to get information out about the issues us as families of soldiers and the issues of the soldiers fighting out to the public. They are being treated like cattle and forced into situations they didn't sign on to deal with. The rotation for each unit is ever changing, like a carrot dangling. The "WAR" never ended in their or the families eyes', as we watch fearfully to see who died without ever knowing where soldiers are beyond estimating from what little information on locations we're given.

Please let me know if you can help or let me know what to do in order to actively put a stop to this unraveling thread. Our soldiers want to come home! We want people to recognize the facts and stop believing what the government is pacifying the public with. The truth is that nothing has changed. People are turning a blind eye because Bush is telling everyone that the war ended months ago.

Those of us who have to wait and worry about our families serving their time know the reality, but are not being acknowledged!

Sincerely,
C.R.G.
Texas, U.S.A.