What a beautiful story.  Stay safe, Robert!

What a beautiful song. God bless you and all of the military and their families. We want you home!

Very nice. A wonderful song.
It’s just too bad the indoctrinated left will demand this song to be censored. Saying Christmas instead of Holiday is deemed “insensitive” to those unthinking drones.

Personally, I’d be devastated if my wife were “balling her eyes out” while I was away. My thoughts are with you, Sgt. Allen.

Thank you Bush/Cheney for this absolutely beautiful and devastatingly sad song.

Touching story, but you should get a better proofreader, i.e. balling/bawling. In its present form it means something rude.

…was wondering if I was the only one that noticed that. Should have said “bawled her eyes eye,” which is actually what is printed in the piece on DVIDS. Way to go, Jon. But it’s par for the course for “editing” at Mediaite. 

Sad part is, all Jon had to do was read the original piece on DVIDs, where it is spelled correctly. 

You should be thanking Al Quaeda – they caused it.

Where in the article is there mention of any such thing even being suggested? You’re the only one bringing up a political angle on a moving story that has NO political dimension to it. It strikes me that the only one “indoctrinated” and “unthinking” is you. 

How did Al Quaeda cause the invasion of Iraq?

If I have to explain it you won’t understand, but the short form answer is 09/11/01.

Um, Al Quaeda was in Afghanistan, not in Iraq.  Bush/Cheney planned to invade Iraq long before 9/11 2001.

Bad guy KIA – what is your problem?

@doodaddio:disqus

“Bad guy KIA – what is your problem?

Saddam killing people in his
own country with chemical weapons, and gearing up to do more of that is
OK with you? He was also sympathetic to Al Qaeda and remarked about
09/11 afterward in favor of the attack.”

You just moved the goalposts. You said we should blame Al Qaeda for the US Invasion and occupation of Iraq, but now you’re blaming Saddam. Which is it?

I’m not even going to get into your ludicrous suggestion that the USA needed to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to prevent Saddam from gassing them with chemical weapons he didn’t have.

Saddam did support Al Qaeda and the 9/11 attack, that is a fact of history. You can look it up if you don’t remember eleven years ago.

Saddam did use chemical weapons on the Kurds, in his own country before 9/11. That is a fact, and you can ignore it but that does not change that it was done or that he had chemical weapons. You are dreadfully misinformed.

There are no goal posts. This is not a debate, it is fact.

Saddam supported Al Qaeda? No, I think you’re confusing Iraq with Saudi Arabia.

You really think the USA invaded Iraq in 2003 because Saddam used chemical weapons in the 1980s?

And no, Saddam did not have chemical weapons anymore. The discovery of 1980s-vintage  disintegrating  shells  does not count. Sorry.

You stated that Al Qaeda caused the US invasion of Iraq. It didn’t. The USA caused the US invasion of Iraq.

You need to go back and get an adult understanding of the situation. The USA was sanctioned by the UN to go to Iraq and remove Saddam from power. You also need to stop trying to steer history the way you want it to turn out. While self-serving, you cannot use bits and pieces of history combined with your agenda and propaganda talking points you learned from some socialist professor – that is revisionism. You are obviously too young to recall the events as they took place and have based your beliefs on conjecture and distortion of the actual history.

He used chemical weapons on his own civilians twice and you can believe that. There is plenty of evidence if you want to see it. I would bet you that those 1980′s vintage weapons were pretty potent when they were falling on the Kurdish villages. Why don’t you ask a survivor? Oh yeah, there weren’t any. Do you know anything about chemical weapons? It seems quite apparent that you do not.

http://hnn.us/articles/862.html

http://www.reasons-for-war-with-iraq.info/

Plenty of material for you to digest here, I suggest you get busy and stop listening to the professors and their opinions and agenda you have been fed as factual. Most of it is liberal BS.

There is a connection between the 9/11 attacks, the war in Afghanistan, and later the ouster of Saddam Hussein; you seem bright enough to figure it out for yourself.

Or can you ignore your indoctrination and look with a fresh point of view?

Straight ballin’!

I cried because the song was so amazingly beautiful to me…..  all the little references to our family that others don’t know or catch touched our hearts (myself and our children)…  Thank you for the kind words and I am so touched that this song has touched so many other lives and is appreciated.  Thank you and we wish all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.  From Mrs. Allen
(and he is a Master Sgt.)