Letters

My husband are both KISS fans, and so are both our teenagers. I'm a Veteran, my husband has been serving on Active Duty for 20 yrs, and our oldest is planning to enlist at the end of the year when he graduates. My husband was in the Gulf on 9/11 on a ship, and he's been back several times since - on ships and on land. Our last two duty stations Stateside, we saw a lot of protesters (we were in the DC area, then we were in the Seattle area - beautiful areas, but lots of protests). There was a lot of negativity aimed at the military - even to the point of people asking our daughter "Why does your Dad like to go to war and shoot people? Why does he like to kill people?" I admit, sometimes it would get very disheartening. We're overseas now, so we don't always see things in as timely a manner as people in the States do, but I just saw your USO tribute, and I just wanted to say THANK YOU so much! It made me cry, seeing that. It means a lot to know that there are people who don't confuse their politics with our troops, and who love our country and support our military, and to have someone like you show that it's not "uncool" to do so. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!