tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6727344.post5898842037824411034..comments2023-11-02T08:14:12.379-05:00Comments on MB Matthews: Street Smarts: Another Soldier Storymarybethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07065222113190978754noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6727344.post-20990752004639854462009-02-03T20:11:00.000-05:002009-02-03T20:11:00.000-05:00Wow, I couldn't beleive that was Tabitha. She is ...Wow, I couldn't beleive that was Tabitha. She is so grown up. I remember her when I was student teaching- such a little fire cracker!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6727344.post-59933584185105979712009-01-08T16:15:00.000-05:002009-01-08T16:15:00.000-05:00We have every right to be proud and respectful of ...We have every right to be proud and respectful of our military broghtes and sisters. We don't need to agree with the politics, but these courageous people don't serve a political interest, only a Code of Honor that civilians can never understand. <BR/><BR/>There are those that chafe at that last statement; they might even interpret it as some sort of slight to them. Nothing could be further form the truth. No one can comprehend the true meaning of battle, of actual combat, who has not personally experienced it. There are absolute, crystal clear numinous moments follwed by hours of sensory decompression and flatness, only to find aderaline filled action and responses based on training and experience. It is the absolute supreme freefall from emption, logic and reason. It is the focus of the highest intensity, especially when another life, or other lives, depend on a single action of another.<BR/>It's not "god-like" it IS God - Merciful and Terrible, Loving and Destroying,obediant and defiant, all in the same instant.<BR/><BR/>Marybeth - your concern for your "student-warriors" is a wonderful thing, and even your least thought may change the course of their lives forever. I wish more people had your compassion and gratitude for them. I for one, thank you, and I thank my brothers and sisters who are where I would wish to be again.Sammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622658536252808853noreply@blogger.com