November 25, 2004
T-Day
Thanksgiving Day is mostly about family and friends, for which we are profoundly grateful. But let's not forget some important neighbors serving far away. This editorial from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer sums things up pretty well.
Pause a moment over your Thanksgiving turkey to remember those whose only repast today will be labeled MRE, for "meals-ready-to-eat."Two days ago, thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops and police commandos began an offensive against Sunni Muslim insurgents in a group of lawless towns southwest of Baghdad, popularly known as the "triangle of death." Call it Fallujah, Round Two.
Americans being Americans, the U.S. military dubbed the new push Operation Plymouth Rock. It began in the town of Jabala but was planned to reach across the Sunni area southwest of Baghdad, where rebels rule the streets after scaring off police.
It's the gritty urban warfare that many observers warned would come. The enemy wears no uniform. Civilian casualties haunt young Americans to whom the deaths of innocents is an abhorrent reality.
What they face today and tomorrow is almost impossible for most of us to imagine -- like missing a meal, or taking Thanksgiving dinner out of plastic stamped "MRE."
On this day -- and every day -- we remain grateful for the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.
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UPDATE: Via the omniscient InstaPundit, here's a very comprehensive list of ways you can support our military and their families. Pick one.
Posted by Alan at November 25, 2004 08:50 AM