Where is the Balance for our Soldiers?

There is a point about Fort Hood that I find disturbing in the reporting of this incident, what do all these people think is happening everyday to the soldiers that are overseas already in war? What makes something happening to soldiers here different to what has been happening to the soldiers that have been in any war in the past or present?

Everybody is pushing to send more troops to the war going on in Afghanistan to see the horrors and face death as was just experienced in Fort Hood, what’s the difference, is it because you can’t see firsthand the atrocities the soldiers are seeing every day? Out of sight out of mind? President Obama has enough sense to not rush to send more military to their possible death only to be chastised by others in the government or in the news. Is it so easy to send faceless men and women to a foreign land to face uncertainty, pain and memories that will stay with them in the form of nightmares? It’s easy to sit at a desk, secure and safe to give orders for others to carry out at any cost, it is not easy to make a carefully thought out plan giving weight to what the cost will eventually be.

My heart goes out to the families that lose any loved one for their country, it is the ultimate price, but let’s not forget, though those people at Fort Hood did not deserve to die, neither do the soldiers far from home that have, are and will pay a high price for the service they are giving. Just because it is not on American soil it is just as important and tragic as what has happened here.