From my Brother the Veteran. Several tours in Iraq doing a job he STILL can't talk about. Pride, ladies and gentlemen. Pride.

This statue currently stands outside the Iraqi palace now home to the 4th Infantry division.
It will eventually be shipped home and put in the memorial museum in Fort Hood , TX
The statue was created by an Iraqi artist named Kalat, who for years was forced by Saddam Hussein to make the many hundreds of bronze busts of Saddam that dotted Baghdad ..
Kalat was so grateful for the Americans liberation of his country; He melted 3 of the heads of the fallen Saddams and made the statue as a memorial to the American soldiers and their fallen brothers.

Kalat worked on this memorial night and day for several months.
To the left of the kneeling soldier is a small Iraqi girl giving the soldier comfort as he mourns the loss of his comrade in arms.

Do you know why we don't hear about this in the news?
Because it is heart warming and praise worthy.
The media avoids it because it does not have the shocking effect that death and suffering have that the networks desperately need to sell advertising time. Time that costs Coke, Target and Budweiser millions of dollars a minute.

But we can do something about it.

We can pass this along to as many people as we can in honor of all our brave military who are making a difference.

We may not all agree on continuing the war but we can NEVER forget the man in the front--the boots on the ground--the blood on and in the soil of a strange country.

These men and women fight for freedom, for the family left at home and most importantly for the soldier fighting next to them.

They deserve our respect as well as our support and they have mine.

Better men than me they all are.

Thank you...