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> >> Don't Close Your Blinds
> >>
> >> The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at war.
> >> My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I
> >> were
> >> in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and
> >> defend
> >> our country again today. I knew that my husband would give him a good
> >> explanation.
> >>
> >> My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go stand in
> >> our front living room window. He said "Son, stand there and tell me what
> >> you see?"
> >>
> >> "I see trees and cars and our neighbor's houses." he replied.
> >>
> >> "OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the United
> >> States of America and you are President Bush."
> >>
> >> Our son giggled and said, "OK."
> >>
> >> "Now son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every house
> >> and yard on this block is a different country" my husband said.
> >>
> >> "OK Dad, I'm pretending."
> >>
> >> "Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and pretend you
> >> see
> >> Saddam come out of his house with his wife, he has her by the hair and is
> >> hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face,
> >> he
> >> throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to death. Their
> >> children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are screaming and
> >> crying,
> >> they are watching this but do nothing because they are kids and they are
> >> afraid of their father. You see all of this, son.... what do you do?"
> >>
> >> "Dad?"
> >>
> >> "What do you do son?"
> >>
> >> "I'd call the police, Dad."
> >>
> >> "OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations. They take your
> >> call.
> >> They listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do you
> >> do then son?"
> >>
> >> "Dad.......... but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts to
> >> whine.
> >>
> >> "They don't want to son, because they say that it is not their place or
> >> your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my
> >> husband
> >> says.
> >>
> >> "But Dad...he killed her!!" my son exclaims.
> >>
> >> "I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I want
> >> you
> >> to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor who you're
> >> pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same thing to his children."
> >>
> >> "Daddy...he kills them?"
> >>
> >> "Yes son, he does. What do you do?"
> >>
> >> "Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next door
> >> neighbor to help me stop him." our son says.
> >>
> >> "Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening and refuses to get
> >> involved as well. He refuses to open the door and help you stop him," my
> >> husband says.
> >>
> >> "But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself!!"
> >>
> >> "WHAT DO YOU DO SON?" Our son starts to cry.
> >>
> >> "OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the street saw you ask for
> >> help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller and
> >> puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next son?"
> >>
> >> "What Daddy?"
> >>
> >> "He walks across the street to the old ladies house and breaks down her
> >> door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on fire
> >> and
> >> then...he kills her. He turns around and sees you standing in the window
> >> and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?"
> >>
> >> "Daddy..."
> >>
> >> "WHAT DO YOU DO?"
> >>
> >> Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers, "I'd close the
> >> blinds,
> >> Daddy."
> >>
> >> My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him..."Why?"
> >>
> >> "Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to help people who need
> >> them...and they won't help.... You always say that neighbors are supposed
> >> to HELP neighbors, but they won't help either...they won't help me stop
> >> him...I'm afraid....I can't do it by myself Daddy.....I can't look out my
> >> window and just watch him do all these terrible things and...and.....do
> >> nothing...so....I'm just going to close the blinds....so I can't see what
> >> he's doing........and I'm going to pretend that it is not happening."
> >>
> >> I start to cry.
> >>
> >> My husband looks at our nine year old son standing in the window, looking
> >> pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husband's questions and he
> >> says..."Son"
> >>
> >> "Yes, Daddy."
> >>
> >> "Open the blinds because that man.... he's at your front door..."WHAT DO
> >> YOU DO?"
> >>
> >> My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls up
> >> his tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, without
> >> hesitation
> >> he says: "I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM HURT MOMMY OR
> >> MY
> >> SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM!!!!!"
> >>
> >> I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs our son to his
> >> chest
> >> and hugs him tight, and says... "It's too late to fight him, he's too
> >> strong and he's already at YOUR front door son.....you should have
> >> stopped
> >> him BEFORE he killed his wife, and his children and the old lady across
> >> the
> >> way. You have to do what's right, even if you have to do it alone,
> >> before
> >> it's too late." my husband whispers.
> >>
> >> THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war with Iraq . When good
> >> men stand by and let evil happen son, THAT is the greatest EVIL of all.
> >> Our President is doing what is right. We, as a free nation, must
> >> understand that this war is a war of humanity. WE must remove evil men
> >> from power so that we can continue to live in a free world where we are
> >> not
> >> afraid to look out our window so that my nine year old son won't grow up
> >> in
> >> a world where he feels that if he just "closes" that blinds the
> >> atrocities
> >> in the world won't affect him.
> >>
> >> "YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT!, EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO DO IT
> >> ALONE!" BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF OUR TROOPS!! SUPPORT
> >> THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER
> >> HAVE
> >> TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS..."
> >>
> >> This should be printed in every newspaper and posted in every school in
> >> America . Of course that won't happen so we'll use the Internet. If
> >> your
> >> blinds are closed, do nothing with this email. If they are open, I do not
> >> need to tell you what to do.