The War

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I know this discussion is going to be controvertial and Iam going to get a lot of people not agreeing with me.When the Iraqy war was first starting we were sharing a home with another person,her son and she was soon to give birth to her second child.The paternal grandmother of her son came to visit over night.My roomate asked her about some male cousins.Her ex mother-in-law told her that both of them in their early twenties are volunterrily to the war.My roomate flipped out and told her that their parents better tell them that they can't go.Her ex mother-in-law tried told her that the boys were adults and that they could not be told what to do by their parents.Then my friend started going on about how they should tell them that if they go they will taken out of their wills!And that going to war they were only asking to die.Her ex mother-in-law told her,"Well,Iam going to be sleeping on the couch tonight and if God has deceided it is time for me to die then I'll have a heartattack,just die in my sleep,whatever." She replied,"Really?""No,there has to be a reason for you dying.".The elderly woman shoock her head and I said,"Yep the reason is God said so.".Her ex mother-in-law agreed.I told her some recent things that had happened.A soldier came home from the war for Thanksgiving and was walking down the street and got shot by a drive by.Another one came home after 6 months in Iraq and died in a car wreck.The third account is that the soldier came home,his service was over and that very day he was seeing that someone was being attacked and he interveined.Saved that person's life,but was stabbed himself.Then there was the man who had also completed his duty in Iraq and went to stay with his siter.The next day he got a job and an apartment he was to move in to the next day.He went to the store at midnight and bought a few things that he needed and as he walked out the door he was shot and killed.There is a reason for everything and those that do die in the war do not die in vein.At the begining of the war I understood why they went.To protect their country,family,friends as well as other citizens.But,now they got Sadam Hussain.The other terrorist cannot be found,so why are we still there?What do you think?