From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Nov 17 2004 - 04:46:57 PST
...and may I add, not founded on any known facts or logic. It wouldn't even
make a good "Mad Magazine" skit. apb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Hay -MILWEB" <Nigel@milweb.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] [Fwd: [Fwd: Fw: awesome!]]
> Totally innapropriate fro this list
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
> Behalf Of John Parsons
> Sent: 17 November 2004 04:48
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: [MV] [Fwd: [Fwd: Fw: awesome!]]
>
>
> Hi gang I know this is off topic but it's a real good letter.
>
> Best Regards
> John Parsons AKA Meat
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Subject:
> >
> > -->
> >
> > This Is AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > > Subject: Explaining the War in Iraq
> > >
> > > Don't Close Your Blinds
> > > The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know
> > > why we were at war.
> > > My husband looked at our son and then looked at me.
> > > My husband and I were in
> > > the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored
> > > to serve and defend our
> > > country again today. I knew that my husband would
> > > give him a good explanation.
> > >
> > > My husband thought for a few minutes and then told
> > > my son to go stand in
> > > our front living room window. He said "Son, stand
> > > there and tell me what you
> > > see?"
> > > "I see trees and cars and our neighbor's houses." he
> > > replied.
> > > "OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and
> > > our yard is the United
> > > States of America and you are President Bush."
> > > Our son giggled and said, "OK."
> > >
> > > "Now son, I want you to look out the window and
> > > pretend that every house
> > > and yard on this block is a different country" my
> > > husband said.
> > > "OK Dad, I'm pretending."
> > >
> > > "Now I want you to stand there and look out the
> > > window and pretend you
> > > see Saddam come out of his house with his wife, he
> > > has her by the hair
> > > and is hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying.
> > > He hits her in
> > > the face, he throws her on the ground, then he
> > > starts to kick her to
> > > death. Their children run out and are afraid to stop
> > > him, they are
> > > screaming and crying, they are watching this but do
> > > nothing because they
> > > are kids and they are afraid of their father. You
> > > see all of this, son....
> > > what do you do?"
> > > "Dad?"
> > >
> > > "What do you do son?"
> > >
> > > "I'd call the police, Dad."
> > >
> > > "OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations.
> > > They take your
> > > call. They listen to what you know and saw but they
> > > refuse to help. What
> > > do you do then son?"
> > >
> > > "Dad.......... but the police are supposed to help!"
> > > My son starts to
> > > whine.
> > >
> > > "They don't want to son, because they say that it is
> > > not their place or
> > > your place to get involved and that you should stay
> > > out of it," my
> > > husband says.
> > >
> > > "But Dad...he killed her!!" my son exclaims.
> > >
> > > "I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out
> > > of it. Now I want
> > > you to look out that window and pretend you see our
> > > neighbor who you're
> > > pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same
> > > thing to his children."
> > >
> > > "Daddy...he kills them?"
> > >
> > > "Yes son, he does. What do you do?"
> > >
> > > "Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go
> > > and ask my next door
> > > neighbor to help me stop him." our son says.
> > >
> > > "Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening
> > > and refuses to get
> > > involved as well. He refuses to open the door and
> > > help you stop him,"
> > > my husband says.
> > >
> > > "But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by
> > > myself!!"
> > >
> > > "WHAT DO YOU DO SON?" Our son starts to cry.
> > >
> > > "OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the
> > > street saw you ask for
> > > help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He
> > > stands taller and
> > > puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next son?"
> > >
> > > "What Daddy?"
> > >
> > > "He walks across the street to the old ladies house
> > > and breaks down her
> > > door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and
> > > sets her house on fire
> > > and then...he kills her. He turns around and sees
> > > you standing in the
> > > window and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?"
> > >
> > > "Daddy..."
> > >
> > > "WHAT DO YOU DO?"
> > >
> > > Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers,
> > > "I'd close the
> > > blinds, Daddy."
> > >
> > > My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes
> > > and asks him..."Why?"
> > >
> > > "Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to help
> > > people who need
> > > them...and they won't help.... You always say that
> > > neighbors are
> > > supposed to HELP neighbors, but they won't help
> > > either...they won't help
> > > me stop him...I'm afraid....I can't do it by myself
> > > Daddy.....I can't
> > > look out my window and just watch him do all these
> > > terrible things
> > > and...and.....do nothing...so....I'm just going to
> > > close the
> > > blinds....so I can't see what he's doing........and
> > > I'm going to pretend
> > > that it is not happening."
> > >
> > > I start to cry.
> > >
> > > My husband looks at our nine year old son standing
> > > in the window,
> > > looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my
> > > husband's questions and
> > > he says..."Son"
> > >
> > > "Yes, Daddy."
> > >
> > > "Open the blinds because that man.... he's at your
> > > front door..."WHAT DO
> > > YOU DO?"
> > >
> > > My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in
> > > his eyes. He balls up
> > > his tiny fists and looks his father square in the
> > > eyes, without
> > > hesitation he says: "I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!! I'M
> > > NOT GONNA LET HIM
> > > HURT MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM,
> > > DAD, I'M GONNA
> > > FIGHT HIM!!!!!"
> > >
> > > I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he
> > > grabs our son to his
> > > chest and hugs him tight, and says... "It's too late
> > > to fight him, he's
> > > too strong and he's already at YOUR front door
> > > son.....you should have
> > > stopped him BEFORE he killed his wife, and his
> > > children and the old lady
> > > across the way. You have to do what's right, even if
> > > you have to do it
> > > alone, before it's too late." my husband whispers.
> > >
> > > THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war
> > > with Iraq . When
> > > good men stand by and let evil happen son, THAT is
> > > the greatest EVIL of
> > > all. Our President is doing what is right. We, as a
> > > free nation, must
> > > understand that this war is a war of humanity. WE
> > > must remove evil men
> > > from power so that we can continue to live in a free
> > > world where we are
> > > not afraid to look out our window so that my nine
> > > year old son won't
> > > grow up in a world where he feels that if he just
> > > "closes" that blinds
> > > the atrocities in the world won't affect him.
> > >
> > > "YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT!, EVEN
> > > IF YOU HAVE TO DO
> > > IT ALONE!" BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF
> > > OUR TROOPS!!
> > > SUPPORT THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA SO THAT IN THE
> > > FUTURE OUR CHILDREN WILL
> > > NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS..."
> > >
> > > This should be printed in every newspaper and posted
> > > in every school in
> > > America . Of course that won't happen so we'll use
> > > the Internet. If
> > > your blinds are closed, do nothing with this email.
> > > If they are open, I
> > > do not need to tell you what to do.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> >
> >
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