Americans in Harms Way

The other nite on the news, I watched 1 of our senators from the great state of Illinois, Dick Durbin, profess his grave concern for the welfare and safety of our Soldiers who were "IN HARMS WAY". He seemed DISTRAUGHT over the 2500 KIA and the wounded since the war began.

I commend him for that. Being a vet, the numbers seem incredibly low from what I remember. We were loosing atleast 250 and sometimes 400 and even 500 a week.

I have to wonder though, does he know about the 2500 citizens of the city of CHICAGO, (in his own state), that have been GUNNED DOWN, STABBED, CLUBBED, BURNED, and HACKED TO DEATH here since the WAR BEGAN? Hell, last year, we had GUNMEN break into a sitting JUDGES HOME and GUN DOWN HER PARENTS. Sound familiar? And that's only 1 city. It seems the answer sadly, is NO. I can't remember the last time he, or anyone else for that matter, mentioned it.

I don't want to seem cold-blooded, but atleast our soldiers have bodyarmour and are armed to be able to peotect themselves. Not to mention, trained and expecting it.

God bless our soldiers and bring them home safe.