War stories

The soldiers who are in the National Guard team nick named "The Bad Voodoos"are specifically the soldiers I'm speaking of. A Sgt. Jean-Paul is a member of the bad voodoos and he has set up his own blog called "National Guard Experience"in where he lets journalists that can't go to Iraq and witness the action in person,it lets them know what is going on across seas in the war.



The leader of The Bad Voodoos Sgt. 1st class Toby "voodoo"Nunn got the nickname when he was shipped over seas to Balkans. There a Muslim and a christian were arguing and wanted to know which religion he thought was better and he told them neither of those concerned him and that he was voodoo.After Balkan he was shipped again to Korea then to Iraq for Operating Iraqi Freedom there his platoon was called "The bad voodoos". These are the soldiers that fight and risk their lives in this war and I thank them for their courage and strength.And i hope their families keep them in their prayers because thats all anyone can do now.

Our soldiers in Iraq are being assigned to missions that are putting them in more danger than need be. Members of our National Guard have been assigned to convoy escort missions through Iraq. These soldiers and the convoys they protect have become number one targets for the terrorists in Iraq. Our soldiers are dying while transporting these materials that are not of military purpose. The attacks on the convoys are not the only thing that is hurting these soldiers, the traveling its self is exausting them. The soldiers have to stay awake all night to get to their destination and sometimes there are no chances to stop to use the restroom or just to get out of the military vehicle. Just little things we never think could effect people can build up stress and drain energy from you.

The danger our soldiers are in is no joke the terrorist who are bombing these convoys can even be Iraqi patrols because some of these bombings happen so close to the patrols checkpoints they were the only ones around. We went into this war to "protect" America but now we are losing more Americans in this war than we lost in 911. And in all reality that is why we went to war with Iraq is for revenge of the killing of thousands of people in the twin towers attack.The people in the middle east have been fighting each other for thousands of years and now we're in on the fighting and we're dying for what? Our soldiers kill a few here and there but more often our men are the ones dying.At this point we're so deep in that it's hard to know what to do next. If we stay our soldiers will continue to die in Iraq.But if we bring our troops out they might bring the war to the states. Their government really doesn't have control of their people most Iraqi troops are just citizens not personnel of their military.And if they bring the war here even more Innocent people will die.