These fake sentimental stories crop up all the time on the internet. I reckon there is some online equivalent of Hallmark cards that hires people to write them.
Soldiers are soldiers - they do their job. They invade whatever country their government tells them to. Hopefully they don't kill people unnecessarily....hopefully. There is no need for sentimentalising war and killing.
The heading of this thread is offensive....it doesn't relate to the content and it suggests that "some people" don't understand the good work being done by troops in a combat zone to protect kids in a school thousands of miles away. I'm sure in this real world we live in that some servicemen are murderers just as I am sure most are not.
In an international forum there are also many other countries who may have differing views on American servicemen, where they are and what they are doing - these kind of stories wouldn't play so well in places where the experience has been negative. (re-write the story from the point of view of the child of an Iraqi mujahadeen and see how it reads)
I don't mean to offend you HJ but this stuff is part of a fake debate which has moved on from the merits of the current war (no longer defensible even to gung-ho American imperialist types) to a kind of gut-level "defend our troops at all costs" approach. "Well maybe invasion was a mistake but hey we're there now so we might as well stay and change the government and sort out the place". Saccharine stuff like this is the low level propoganda that tries to keep a basic support for a corrupt policy. That is political manipulation and an issue for Americans I suppose.
JMO
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