Is Damien one of your sons in Iraq?

Could you share with us what he was talking about?

Dear Campy, he was talking about the fact that the war in Iraq has escalated greatly and now Americans are dying at a much faster rate. Very much faster.  Yes, he's in Iraq.  In Baghdad, where the killing is much worse.  His job is to clean up after an "incident", so he knows what he's talking about.  In my opinion, this has occured because Iran is pouring in men and weapons in an effort to stop this before it escalates to an attack on them.  Our children are trapped there.

Dawn, he called me again yesterday, thank God, and let me know he's still alive, but one boy lost his leg.  I wrote this because I want people to know Damien is NOT a statistic.  He's my little boy and he's in mortal danger.  He asked for prayers for his wife because she is not handling the fear and worry very well.  

Another thing he said was, "This is all a mistake".  Great epitaph.  But if it is a mistake, it is our mistake for letting it get this far.

Thank you both for responding.

And I have come to understand you and where you were coming from through my research (with Anty's help) and thanks to Dawn's tip.  It would have helped if you had of put me in the loop as per this anti Protestant Catholicism.  I truly disagree with you, but not knowing what I was fighting made it impossible to rebut.  So I misunderstood many things, but not that I was charged and convicted of not being the same kind of Catholic that you are.  I am guilty as charged there, even though I didn't know what I was charged with.  Still you can't have it both ways, Gilbert, and if I were feeling better I would prove that.

Damien is my fourth son (and youngest) to be in Iraq.  Jamie just got back in November, Jody is out on medical and Jan was in Desert Storm (so was Jamie, for that matter).  Whatever you found in Iraq, multiply it.  Damien told me other things, as well.  That he has come to realize that the military lied to them (which is why he called it a mistake), and that the Iraqis just want them to get out and our children just want to come home.  The mistake in his eyes was believing the military and in my eyes in sitting here twiddling our thumbs while people die.  I know jolly well that you wouldn't stand there and pray for a miracle while someone butchered your daughter, so don't recommend that I confine my actions to prayer and converting my neighbor while someone butchers my son.  I'm going to move every mountain I can to rescue him, along with prayer and conversion.  If prayer alone were enough the saints would have never left home.

I'll grant you that the way I advocate is not the perfect way, but it just might keep us alive long enough to attain the perfect way.  What hubris suggests that God will perform a miracle for people who won't themselves step into the breach?  To me this is a simple matter of saving lives, that there might be time to save souls.  And saving lives often means fighting literally.  Unless you have found a way to convert corpses, this is what it comes down to.  No, no.  The very foundation of Christianity is laying down our lives for others.  And Jesus didn't mean we were to die of a burst blood vessel praying for God to do what we could do ourselves (although fervent prayer is what moves heaven).
My prayer is that our children come home, safe, sound and soon.  That this war be stopped and we be granted Our Lady's era of peace.  I will mark your brother in my "especialies", and I do thank you for your prayers.  I wish the whole world would pray and take action.

I am grateful that Damien has his scapular and rosary, but I'm not much comforted that his chaplain is probably NO.  So there is that to be lived with, too.  They used to give the soldiers and sailors Bibles.  Now they persecute the chaplains for using Jesus' name.  It seems to me that satan has managed to put every sort of obstacle between God and His children.  What we need are the old time saints who would have busted them right back down.