| 09/13/08 08:28 PM |
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Susan DeLozier
Hey Everyone....9/11. I was at work in Townsend, CPA Office and one of the temps came into work that morning and yelled, "We have been attacked!" We started receiving phone calls from family members telling us what was happening. Steve, my husband, was at that time working at Oak Ridge, and the rest of the day was on pins and needles wondering if Oak Ridge would be next. Fortunately, our leaders were on top of it and stopped it before they were able to carry out their plan of other destinations in the USA.
Yes, it is difficult not to judge the muslin religion and the people from Iraq because of 9/11. Steve now works in Iraq and Afghanastain, where the USA is building and providing water and electricity for those who never had it,and police stations. Sadam had all the luxuries, but not the residents of Baghdad. (The company that Steve worked for at that time was responsible for building the court house where sadam was on trial.)
We never hear any of the good that is going on in Iraq, Afghanastain, such as the look on kids faces the first time they have electricity and running water in their home.
There are mean people there just as there are mean Americans, Mexicans, Canadians, etc. And there are good ones just like Americans, Mexicans, Canadians, etc. as one of the Iraq women, that worked for Steve, was killed one morning on her way to work, as was her brother. They wanted their car, so they they shot them in the back of the head, left them laying in the ditch and drove away with their car. They kill their own, not just us!
When that job was completed, I flew to Amman, Jordan to meet Steve so we could tour Jordan. Awesome place! Got see the 2 places that Jesus was baptised, the dead sea and more, but on my flight from London to Amman, there was a lady setting beside me and as we talked, she told me that she lives in London and was born in Iraq. She said that most of her family had escaped, and until just the past few months they were able to get her sister out. She, of course, had been brainwashed by sadam and they were working to get that out of her. We talked about what we were doing going to Amman, she was going there to meet her family for holiday - Christmas, as she is a christian. When we landed in Amman, she took me under her wing and got me thru customs, speaking Arbic and telling them what I was doing in the country, blah, blah, blah. We still communicate by email and I have learned much from her that has helped me work on my relationship with God. Without him, Steve and I would not have made these past 5 years while he has been in Iraq. He works with a lot the Iraq people and he said that have told him that they respect and like him, but because all their life they have been taught that Americans were bad, they have to work on their mindset every day. Steve doesn't trust them knowing that, he says he fears that at any time they can revert back to those teachings and kill all of them. On the other hand, many of them have brought Steve gifts and when Jessi, his daughter, had a bad car accident, one of them came to Steve and ask if he could help pay her hospital bills.
I say all of this to say Thank You to the boys and girls fighting for our country and protecting us on our soil here and all the Britts and Americans that are there helping to build and do good. And as Steve says, we have to start with kids there now and teach them that Americans are not bad.....AND IF we do not fight them on their land, as 9/11 taught us, we will be fighting them here on our soil in the USA. GOD bless the USA and love to you all....
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