In addition to remembering the horror of Saddam and why we fight, we should be proud of the daily progress in that country. Take, for example, today’s Q&A by Demorris Lee in the Raleigh News & Observer, with Sgt. Malcolm Bennett, an x-ray technician with the North Carolina National Guard’s 30th Heavy Separate Brigade. Sgt. Bennett is deployed in Iraq at a 40-bed medical facility. In part, the Q&A reads as follows:
Question from Lee: Did you have any idea what you were getting into before you left?
Answer from Sgt. Bennett: I really didn’t understand the mission until we got here. We are doing a great service. The families and kids love to see you. They give you the thumbs-up. We are giving the people a new life. When you ride through town, you get the feeling that you are doing a good service….We are giving [Iraqis] a chance that we have in the States. We take so much for granted. Here, houses don’t have doors or windows. Kids don’t have shoes or socks, and that’s all they know.
