{"id":7801,"date":"2007-07-01T05:11:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T09:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2007-07-01T05:15:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T09:15:58","slug":"life-in-fayetteville-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7801","title":{"rendered":"LIFE IN FAYETTEVILLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our God is bigger than their God:<\/a><\/p>\n

Soldiers and their danger are what\u2019s important<\/p>\n

I just read that two journalists had written about abuse by the 82nd Airborne while trying to obtain info. Guess what \u2014 I don\u2019t care. Who are we to judge what methods they are using, while we are sitting in our air-conditioned homes, with no fear of anyone trying to walk into our home with a bomb attached to his person, all in the name of what? You are right \u2014 I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

I do care that my son is in Iraq fighting for all our freedom. I care about him and all the brave men who volunteered to fight for freedom for all of us. I care so very much that I am unable to go to sleep at night thinking of all the people in Iraq that are trying to kill my son. I care so much when reading about young fathers, husband, sons and friends who are killed while standing up for what they know is right.<\/p>\n

My generation has made a lot of mistakes, but we have the bragging rights of these brave men \u2014 men who are ready and willing to fight for our freedom, our God and our great country. We know they will do us proud.<\/p>\n

A very proud mother of an 82nd Airborne member.<\/p>\n

Betty Van Meter
\nGreenwood, Miss. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She should<\/em> care about the 82nd Airborne being implicated in abusing (i.e., torturing) prisoners. Torture damages more than just the victim. The victim may lose his health or even his life. The torturer may lose his humanity.<\/p>\n

I feel for parents who have kids in harm’s way. But this war is not about freedom. And it’s not about whose god is bigger. It’s about securing our access to Iraqi oil. Always was about the oil. Always will be. And the sooner we get out, the better off (and safer) our country will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our God is bigger than their God: Soldiers and their danger are what\u2019s important I just read that two journalists had written about abuse by the 82nd Airborne while trying to obtain info. Guess what \u2014 I don\u2019t care. Who are we to judge what methods they are using, while we are sitting in our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}