Mrs. Satterthwaite, these over

400 brightest and best Americans lie dead because they chose willingly

to take the oath of protecting our country from the same elements that

took some the life of thousands of our brightest citizens and foreigners

on 9/11!

If you want elaborate display

in the news about funerals of the valiant dead you are not going to get

it. In every war this country has participated, it has been a policy not

to have such displays.

The ties to Iraq and Osama

Bin Laden are well known to those that read something else besides the

Atlanta paper, the New York Times, and watch TV sitcoms instead of getting

the truth from other sources. That is one reason why we don't have

these propaganda outlets from showing body bags everyday a la Vietnam

era, because a lot of our citizens are vastly uninformed or choose to

be ignorant about what we are really fighting against.

Do the cruel executions of

over 400,000 Iraqis at the hand of Saddam Hussein bother you, Mrs. Satterthwaite?

How about the bombing of countless American and non-American citizens

throughout the world? Would you have felt the same about the commander

in chief of the great number of gallant Americans that gave their life

to liberate some of today's ungrateful European countries from the

Nazi tyranny during World War II?

If as you say that we should

not believe that "our God is on our side," who should be on

the side of the citizens of all faiths in the most generous nation in

the history of civilization?

As far as sharing our plenty

of our church missionaries worldwide are doing that! Many religious and

nonreligious American organizations are feeding, clothing and providing

for the needs of needy people throughout the world while in danger of

being massacred by Islamic radicals.

The relative safety of our

streets is protected by American underpaid law enforcement and armed forces

members that put their life on the line everyday so that we can enjoy

the freedoms of this wonderful adopted country of mine! They definitely

are not doing it for the money, but for a sense of duty that many of our

citizens take for granted!

Instead of lobbing a few missiles

at Iraq, and fed up with the useless debating team of countries called

the U.N., our commander in chief took the fight to Afghanistan and Iraq

to try to eliminate the radical people that one day may explode a dirty

bomb in one of our large cities and kill hundred of thousands of our citizens.

Americans are settling into

the comfort of complacency yet again. It's been over two years since

those 3,000 people died in New York. The average American is more concerned

about who's going to get kicked off the island next, or the record

of his favorite football team, than he is about a continued threat of

terrorist activity against his country.

Bush has gathered many of the

world's terrorists in the Middle East for a battle. Perhaps Americans

aren't able to put their hearts into this fight unless it takes place

on our soil. Their complacency could lead to just such a result.

One quote from Thomas Jefferson

that I believe rings true today proclaims, "The tree of liberty must

be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Amen!

Gerard Jansen

Peachtree City, Ga.