Forget whether the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq are right – that is not relevant to this blog post – but it seems that each day I watch the news there are more deaths in Afghanistan. More fathers, sons, daughters, wives dying, more coffins returning home to their family.
For someone who knows the devastation of death, I just cannot imagine what these familes go through. What they go through when they are alive fighting on the front line and what they go through when they hear that fateful news…..
I don’t think I could cope with the not knowing, the fear, …read more

 I wrote a post called Finding Your Strengths for a New Life and received a heart tugging comment from a recent widow here is a snippet
“I really do miss my dearest husband and I instantly start to cry when I look at our pictures. This has not been happening lately, but today I feel down and am in need of finding someone to talk to. My mother is around, but she seems to become worse if I open up for her.
So I really don’t know what to do….”

I know we all know that feeling, I know that none of …read more

So this weekend the US passed 4,000 deaths in Iraq, no matter what your belief is about the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq..I hope that we can unite in saying that 4,000 lives lost, is a sad day. It is a sad day for the world when we send our family, our husbands, our wives to face the potential loss of their precious lives.
I just wonder when we as a world will learn that war causes such tremendous pain, conflict never seems to solve problems, and that we all as human beings should value life and find …read more

When will we as a world stop causing families so much pain, so much suffering? When will we be able to live together again, instead of taking life away….. My tears flowed when I heard about Jason Hubbard and his family.
“A US soldier has been withdrawn from Iraq after his two brothers were killed in action, echoing the Oscar-winning film “Saving Private Ryan”, it was reported Friday.
 
Jason Hubbard, 33, will return to his family’s home in northern California after younger brother Nathan, 21, was one of 14 soldiers killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in northern Iraq on Wednesday.
 
The …read more

Each day I watch the news, today I see the US have now lost 3,706 soldiers in Iraq, the figures in Afghanistan are rising, when will it ever end? I think the world needs my mum – she would be great at sitting down all the leaders, banging her fists on the table, telling them what idiots they are and that she had, had enough! Stop these stupid wars or face the consequences…..none would mess with her, trust me!  
 The whole world, all religions are suffering loss and I can only imagine the level of pain across the world. You …read more

Following on from my last post on how my heart bleeds for the widows/widowers of the Iraq soldiers I have just read at the Washington Post that there have been  
- As of Thursday, July 5, 2007, at least 3,591 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,951 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.
The striking part for me is that 1,000 were not due to hostile action – for anyone …read more