{"id":924,"date":"2006-06-24T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/06\/a-view-from-the-front-lines.html"},"modified":"2006-06-24T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T23:14:00","slug":"a-view-from-the-front-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/06\/a-view-from-the-front-lines.html","title":{"rendered":"A View From the Front Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read this great post over at Michael Yon’s Frontline Forum by Sargent Tim Boggs.<\/a>
\nDo yourself a favor, read this guy’s post.
\nCurrently Sargent Bogg’s is serving a second voluntary tour in Iraq and he tells us what it’s like in the town of Qayyarah (don’t ask me how to pronounce it).
\nHe gives us a view from the front lines and compares how things were under Saddam’s oppression and how it is now. Sure, things aren’t perfect but…<\/p>\n

Most importantly there is hope for the future. People know that it is up to them to determine their future and they realize that they have a golden opportunity to make a positive change for their country. I have spent a good amount of time with Qayyarah residents, and I am quite certain that if America only knew more stories of towns like theirs, the picture that many people across the world have of Iraq right now would change.<\/strong> The smaller changes in Iraq like those that have taken place in Qayyarah are not always deemed “newsworthy” by the media but are of immense importance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go and check out t.f. bogg’s blog<\/a> for a truthful perspective on the War.
\n(HT Michael Yon<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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