It is done. We now have the honorable President Elect, Barack Obama. Our work has just begun. I am humbly greatful.
Coming down to the wire, and it is looking positive for Barack Obama. Observing closely and with vivid interest, my participation has been more from the sidelines than as an active campaign volunteer. I figured since we have two in our family who are returning Iraq veterans, both having served 'stop-loss', extended 15 month deployments, their contribution to this country has been enormous on it's own merit. Our sil is in Iraq again, in his second stop-loss, extended 15 month deployment. His wife and children are paying a hefty price for these long back to back deployments. Meanwhile, we have been one military family speaking out against the Iraq war since the initial invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Who are we? We are myself, a traditional and proud of the term 'military brat', and later, a young military wife with young husband deployed to Vietnam; and my husband, a Vietnam-era veteran.
I haven't been too much into donating or campaigning, preferring instead to permit other citizens carry that load. Now that the elections are coming down to the finish line, I gave my first 'donation' - small amount of $$ that it was, I found I was feeling more and more compelled to give something before the campaign finished. I wanted to be able to say more than that I support Obama, but that I actually gave a small amount to his campaign. The sacrifices of the loved ones in our family who are giving far more than $$, who are willingly putting their very lives on the line, cannot be matched by my words and that is equally true for every other soldier, marine, sailor, airmen putting his or her life on the line to serve our country.
