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Re: Fw: worth passing on



Dear Laura,

  I have just read your message and I am sitting here trying to type this to you with tears in my eyes.  Your mother-in-law must be a very proud mother indeed to have a son as worthy as your husband.  You are a very lucky woman indeed, as is your daughter to have a father as honorable as hers.
  There are so many wrong people in this world today, not just here in the good ole USA, but all over, that it is so wonderful to hear of one good one.  The good always outweigh the bad.
  Here's to hoping the future milenium will bring forth more good men such as your wonderful husband.

 Donna St. Clair Willis
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 01:19:45 EST LAURASINCLAIR1@aol.com wrote:
>This American wife thanks you very much for printing the story. I have one of 
>my own to tell. Veterans Day has come and gone once again, and Thanksgiving, 
>yet still every year since 1990 I carry the thought of those days within my 
>heart for days to follow. My husband Scott is a Desert Storm Veteran and a 
>very proud American as well. He says his pride comes from those before him, 
>instilled as a child from his father Neil Sinclair from Scotland and his 
>fathers before him. The Sinclair men in his family are very strong. Our 
>daughter Kathryn was just two weeks old when he left, and nearly 1 when he 
>returned, totally unknown to her. I remember going to the bank one day to do 
>the usual, when I heard this women complaining about the American Soldiers in 
>Saudia Arabia, how she didn't understand what they were doing, and calling 
>them stupid, Jack***** and how she was glad she had no sons to go and fight, 
>only daughters. Well, she went on and on until I just couldn't take it 
>anymore! I do have some what of a temper, plus all of the employees in the 
>bank new myself and my husband very well, and knew where he was. I turned to 
>her and said what makes you think that we as americans will stand for anyone 
>raping and taking what's not there's, we don't stand for it here and we will 
>not stand for it anywhere else. And as for your daughters, if we were at war 
>and it was happening to you and yours, you would be the first to jump behind 
>my husband holding an M-16. So you shouldn't bash them until you know what 
>you are talking about. Then when the war was over I remember being on cloud 
>nine waiting for my husband to come home, when the phone rang and it was him. 
>He said they needed vollenters to stay to help clear the mine fields in 
>kawait, My first response was no, and why you. He then said to me Laura there 
>is so much here I can't begin to tell you, but what I will tell you is I 
>can't it good conscious come home and look into my daughters eyes knowing I 
>have left something undone. He felt he had to stay and make it safe for the 
>children over there. No he didn't come home decorated or a hero,  but My for 
>my eyes and his daughters he will forever be one. I guess I just wanted 
>others to know even the small sacrifices to us here are big else where! I 
>hope I didn't go on to much! Laura Sinclair
>

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