REFLEXIONES DE LAS MADRES EN SU DIA

Las Madres Contra la Guerra denunciamos la triste tragedia de las continuas asignaciones a combate de nuestros hijos e hijas militares. Este informe revela el impacto de las mismas. De cara al Día de las Madres pedimos que se acaben las guerras y que no suframos ni las madres boricuas ni afganas ni de Irak porque la maternidad es vida y amamos la PAZ.
Repeated deployments weigh heavily on U.S.troops
4/13/2010 4:50 PM
By USA TODAY
Army Staff Sgt. Bobby Martin discusses his four
tours of Iraq and Afghanistan from Combat Outpost
Sayad Abab, Afghanistan.
WARDAK PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Army Staff Sgt.
Bobby Martin Jr. has been fighting insurgents in Iraq longer than the entire three
years the Korean War lasted.
At age 34 and finishing a fourth combat tour, he has seen five of his men killed since 2003. Four died this year, including two on Martin's birthday in May.
Thirty-eight cumulative months in combat have left him with bad knees, aching shins and recurring headaches from a roadside blast, ailments he hides from his soldiers.
Out of earshot of his troops, Martin concedes, "This is a lot of wear and tear."
American soldiers of the 21st century are quietly making history, serving in combat longer than almost any U.S. soldiers in the nation's past, military historians say.
For many, the fighting seems without end, a fatalism increasingly shared by most.
A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll conducted late last week found that 67% believe the U.S. will constantly have combat troops fighting somewhere in the world for at least
the next 20 years.