The Uncounted

First watch and read this........The Uncounted.


Next read this........article 1 (Note*  There are TONS of articles about this, a Google search will bring up no less then 20.  I liked how this one lays it out.)


Twelve years ago on September 11th, my husband had duty.  He was at work for approximately 24 hours.  Eleven years ago, in February I took dropped him off in front of his battalion to send him to war not knowing when I would see him again.  They told us to prepare for at least a year, maybe 18 months.   Yesterday, marks the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.  I skipped work that day.  I sat on the couch with my two dogs and watched the news.


My peer group, my friends, their children...we are the uncounted.  Maybe after reading the second article after reading the first will help you to understand why people get so angry, are so passionate and so disheartened when they hear of these things.  It's like a slap in the face.  It's being told you don't matter.  It says that the last 11 years, the ones that we cried through, worried about, prayed without ceasing for, don't matter.


Money is money.  But people, are people and they are so much more important.  I wish people would think about the people.