Operation Just Cause... ...for as long as it takes
Sent in by "A Friend"
Do you remember when we met? We just clicked together and very soon we were best friends - two skinny, silly kids who thought they owned the world and everything in it.
We started out riding bikes, swimming in the local pool, going to the movies and found out that just being friends and being together was great.
We were there for each other, we cared, we gave support through broken romances, failed tests, being 2nd string on the sport teams and not getting the car, the job, the date we wanted so much. Maybe we were a strange team, you were good at some things and I was good at others. That just allowed us to cheer for each other.
We graduated from high school on top of the world and then things began to change. I went to college and you volunteered to fight in the war that was so far away. I got your address and we wrote for a little while then I never heard from you again.
I went to the Vietnam Memorial Wall and I touched your name and the tears ran down my cheeks. Tears for all the years we didn't get to share with each other but most of the tears were for the years you lost being you, doing what you wanted to do, falling in love, having your own family – all that will never be for you and it broke my heart.
Where are you my friend? Are you alive? My mind wonders through many nights asking that question. Did you die, were you alone, did someone hold your hand and tell you things would be OK? Or are you alive in some horrible prison camp wondering why you were left behind? Do you wonder if anyone cares? Do you think about your childhood, do you remember me? Does you mind go over the great times we had together, do you remember our classes in schools, our cookouts? I hope you do because if they give you a moment of joy I am so thankful.
I don't know, my friend, what happened to you, but the thought that maybe some day you will walk down an airplane ramp and step on American soil again is what keeps me going. I have joined the fight to bring all the POW/MIA(s) back home. I know that there are friends and families of too many American soldiers who don't have the answers they need - who don't know if the person they love is alive or dead. I know the 2000+ names on the list of Vietnam POW/MIA(s) are real people because your name is on that list.
May God bless you, my friend, and bring you home very soon. Alive or dead you are my friend and I want you to come back home. I will be waiting for you to give you the salute I never got to give you in person.
Would you please join with me in the fight to bring all the POW/MIA(s) back home? On this Memorial Day many of us do remember the POW/MIA(s) from WW II, the Korean War, the Vietnam Conflict and the Cold War. We cannot forget because if we do they become the forgotten. Write your congressmen and tell them we owe these men, these families at least this much. We need all the POW/MIA(s) brought back home immediately. Please help.
