Tragic and heartwarming at the same time...

[Ripsnort]

Tragic story, but a heartwarming soul to the rescue...bet this doesn't make Primetime news...

This is something you will never see in the news. Here's a tough, but heartwarming story and a picture of John Gebhardt in Iraq . His wife, Mindy, related that this little girl's entire family was executed. They intended to execute her also and shot her in the head, but they failed to kill her. She was cared for by John's hospital and is healing, but has been crying and moaning. The nurses said John is the only one she seems to calm down with, so John has spent the las t four nights holding her while they both sleep in that chair. The girl is coming along with her healing.

*He is a real Star of the war and is representative of what America is trying to do. Please keep this going. Nothing will happen if you don't. The American public needs to see pictures like this and needs to realize that what we're doing over there is making a difference. Even if it is one little girl at a time.



James Gates U.S. Navy.

[rpm]

Great story, but why do I wonder about it's authenticity? Tony Snow must be doing a lousy job because the White House press should be all over this.

[Mark Luper]

Snopes likes it RPM.

Snopes is your friend

Nice story.

Mark

[rpm]

Cool, glad to know it's not some internet bs. Why has'nt the White House picked up on this? If I learned anything from watching The West Wing it's that the press secretary should be talking about this kinda stuff.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

They just don't. You find stuff like this all the time, at the Mudville Gazette, Michael Yon's, Michael Fumento's, Iraq the Model, and a host of other places. You're right, they should be all over it. But I figure they think it is so easy to find that if the MSM really WANTED to show it, they know about it already, and they would. They'd probably just get slammed for using it for "propaganda" anyway.

[VooWho]

I never hear anything on the news about how the U.S presents have changed their lives after Saddams fall. I remember watching that big statue of Saddam fall to the ground, and everyone ran over and just stomped all over his head. That was the highlight of the news, then came, CAR BOMB KILLS 3! IS THE WAR CHANGING? All I hear is blah blah blah, car bomb, blah blah blah, riot, blah blah blah, kidnapped, blah blah blah, insurgents fire upon,blah. I never here this, Iraqi kids both girls and boys getting a full education. Iraqi kids, elders, and women getting the right medical treatment. The only thing I see to that extent is Iraqies joining the Police and Army, then the media saying, some of these guys could be terroists. Why can't they ever tell a good story.

[rpm]

They need to be using it to build some street cred instead of concentrating on political shinola.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

An example from the blog "Iraq the Model" :

Wednesday, January 17, 2007
 
Mourning the Fallen Angels of Iraq...
Nothing was more painfully clear than this message; they are killing our future by killing students and knowledge. They are killing the flowers who filled the world with laughter, energy and hope since the first school was built thousands of years ago somewhere on this very land.

65 families or maybe more mourn their sons and daughters today and I know their feeling very well…I've been through it when I lost my loved ones and I know what their obsessions are telling them; why did send them to school? Did I have to, was it the right thing to go on with our lives and defy terror? Oh God, they threatened and they did it but what future would we have if my son didn't go to school!?
Why did I let her go? Oh God help me answer my bleeding heart.

A policeman says: the cell phones didn’t stop ringing in their pockets and purses but there was no one to answer…they were gone.
The ringing will keep me awake tonight angels of Iraq…you were the bravest when you chose to go on in the face of danger. I will not close my eyes tonight; your phones and your voices echo in my head waking up the demons who want revenge in cruelty that splits heads from shoulders.

Isn't this sight enough for the world to stand with us? Doesn't it look clear now? Damn you if you watched this and saw only new numbers for your counts. (emphasis mine)

I bet my life on it; tomorrow students will go to their schools again carrying their books, wearing their best clothes. Even if one student remains I bet you these crimes will not stop life from going on.

Please, go light a candle for their souls and let the world hear your voice…let's expose the criminals and let's fight them with all the strength we can find so that our sons and brothers can walk to school every day.

Oh, angels of Iraq, I mourn you like I mourned no one else.
 
Posted by Mohammed @ 18:28

Check out that blog. It shows the success stories along with the cold hard facts, and the horrors these people suffer in their struggle.

It saddens me greatly that people who enjoy the freedom we have here, would seek to leave the job unfinished, would seek to abandon these people who seek the same freedom, and would have the brave men and women who have fought so valiantly, who continue to do so, and who believe in what they are doing, turn and leave, after losing their friends, and make the sacrifices of those who have been killed and injured all for naught.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Originally posted by rpm
They need to be using it to build some street cred instead of concentrating on political shinola.

Do you REALLY think anyone who does not believe now will suddenly be convinced? Do you REALLY think the media is going to pick up all these great stories all of the sudden just because the Whitehouse points them out? Do you REALLY think the media doesn't know about all of this already? People who WANT to know the truth will find it. People who do not cannot be led to it. The media loves bad news. They love bad news for Bush even more. Car bombs and IED's are their favorites. And so are failures.

You surely don't REALLY believe that Reuters, AP, the BBC, and all of the other news agencies never get any briefs on the school that just opened, or the power plant that just came on line, or the water plant that is at 100%, or the hospital that has doctors, nurses and supplies. Sure they do.  

If Bush, or any one else from the Whitehouse, came on once or twice a week, for half an hour, and told the country about the heroes and the success stories, how often do you think the MSM would carry it, and for how long? If they got a month out of it I'd be stunned.

[Hap]

Touching and true.  Thanks for the post Ripsnort.

Regards,

hap