Subject: FW: The Blinds. (This is a MUST READ!)
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:34:10 -0500

Ronda read this all the way thru. I will make you cry.


Lt. John Jester
Investigations Division
Greenfield Police Department

Subject: Fwd: The Blinds. (This is a MUST READ!)




The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at war.
My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I
were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve
and defend our Country again today. I knew that my husband would give
him a good explanation.

My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go stand in
our front living room window. He said "Son, stand there and tell me
what you see?"

"I see trees and cars and our neighbor's houses." he replied.

"OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the United
States of America and you are President Bush."

Our son giggled and said "OK."

"Now son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every house
and yard on this block is a different country" my husband said.

"OK Dad, I'm pretending."

"Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and pretend you
see Saddam come out of his house with his wife, he has her by the hair
and is hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in
the face, he throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to
death. Their children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are
screaming and crying, they are watching this but do nothing because they
are kids and they are afraid of their father. You see all of this,
son.... what do you do?"

"Dad?"

"What do you do, son?"

"I'd call the police, Dad."

"OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations. They take your
call. They listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What
do you do then son?"

"Dad.......... but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts to
whine.

"They don't want to son, because they say that it is not their place or
your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my
husband says.

"But Dad...he killed her!!" my son exclaims.

"I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I want
you to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor who you're
pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same thing to his children."

"Daddy...he kills them?"

"Yes son, he does. What do you do?"

"Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next door
neighbor to help me stop him." our son says.

"Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening and refuses to get
involved as well. He refuses to open the door and help you stop him,"
my husband says.

"But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself!!"

"WHAT DO YOU DO SON?" Our son starts to cry.

"OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the street saw you ask for
help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller and
puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next son?"

"What Daddy?"

"He walks across the street to the old ladies house and breaks down her
door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on fire
and then...he kills her. He turns around and sees you standing in the
window and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?"

"Daddy..."

"WHAT DO YOU DO?"

Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers, "I'd close the
blinds, Daddy."

My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him..."Why?"

"Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to help people who needs
them...and they won't help.... You always say that neighbors are
supposed to HELP neighbors, but they won't help either...they won't help
me stop him...I'm afraid....I can't do it by myself Daddy.....I can't
look out my window and just watch him do all these terrible things
and...and.....do nothing...so....I'm just going to close the blinds....
so I can't see what he's doing........and I'm going to pretend that it
is not happening."

I start to cry.

My husband looks at our nine year old son standing in the window,
looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husband's questions and
he says..."Son"

"Yes, Daddy."

"Open the blinds because that man.... he's at your front door..."WHAT DO
YOU DO?"

My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls up
his tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, without
hesitation he says: "I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM
HURT MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA
FIGHT HIM!!!!!"

I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs our son to his
chest and hugs him tight, and says... "It's too late to fight him, he's
too strong and he's already at YOUR front door son.....you should have
stopped him BEFORE he killed his wife, and his children and the old lady
across the way.

You have to do what's right, even if you have to do it alone, before
it's too late." my husband whispers.







THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war with Iraq. When good
men stand by and let evil happen son, THAT is the greatest EVIL of all.



Our President is doing what is right. We, as a free nation, must
understand that this war is a war of humanity. WE must remove evil men
from power so that we can continue to live in a free world where we are
not afraid to look out our window so that my nine year old son won't
grow up in a world where he feels that if he just "closes" that blinds
the atrocities in the world won't affect him.

"YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT!, EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO DO
IT ALONE!" BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF OUR TROOPS!!
SUPPORT THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN WILL
NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS..."

***This should be printed in every newspaper and posted in every school
in America. Of course that won't happen so we'll use the internet.

I have never seen this before. But was quite moved by it. Is there
any chance of getting a copy of it sent to an email address, mine of
course. Thank you.

it's a very touching story and a good analogy. it would be nice to live
in a world where everyone was good and you could turn to your neighbor
in a time of need, the only problem is that it isn't true. there are a
bunch of countries that are continuously fighting and creating genocide
and iraq had been relatively peaceful for years. i will support the
prseident and our country but if you try to cover up a mistake by giving
an excuse that will evoke pride in our nation you are basically trying
to play off of good peoples emotions. that story will convince good
people that there is a reason to do something even if their is not. what
about finishing afghanistan and bin laden, pakistan, south korea or
especially iran. they were all more of a threat to the united states at
the time we went to iraq and i hate to think that our service men and
women are being misused. i don't agree with sending people to die in a
war that never should have been started in the first place.
if they have to die, wouldn't you rather it be for the principles
outlined in your story? that is the same reason that he was elected in
the first place, he used hot button topics that he knew some people were
very emotional about and that is what he based his campaign on. the only
problem was that those topics were not important to the longevity and
strength of this country. he wanted to say that iraq had wmd's, where
are they? his first excuse for a war with iraq was because they had wmd,
what about all of the countries that i listed above. they for sure have
them and one of the countries even fired a missile in our
direction(could have been carrting nukes)and claimed it was just a test.
but we don't go after these countries though. all of this amounts to the
same thing that made me sick during the end of the "mission
accomplished" when he disgraced the service men by showing up in a
flight suit after he "declined" to go to war when he was an 18 year old
pilot. he was playing it up for the crowd and trying to bring up the
emotion of patriotism to sell something.

pms64 ~ Of course I'll copy it to you. Send your home e-mail addy to my
inbox here and I'll do it.

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Note the original date I got the e-mail...10 Nov 2004. People with no
real connection to the military just get tired of hearing about the war
on the news.

Like I said, here at Ft. Bragg, the planes take off ~ the planes land.
Units are moving in and out on rotation every day.

I can't just look at it like it's a war...those are people's husbands,
wives,sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters on those
planes! THEY ARE OUR FAMILIES...

hmmm....

Andrew Wee
www.WhoIsAndrewWee.com

that was a very good analagy ...gotta support our troops cause our
support at home is what makes our brothers and sisters fathers sons
mothers and daughters keep going day in and day out both of my parents
served three of my brothers werew born in berlin as a result and i
strongly believe weather right or wrong or what your thoughts on the
addministration are support our troops they are the reason we can be
free