I have spent the past two days wondering what I wanted to write about today. So much has happened in the past week it is easy to get caught up in a confused diatribe of all the events and make sense out of none of them. With the recent mass murder at Fort Hood and today being Veterans Day I am hoping this will just write itself.

            As I have written before the attack on Fort Hood, in my opinion, is a terrorist attack. I heard Chris Mathews make a statement that contacting Al Qaeda is not a crime. I wonder what would have happened to a Major in the military who had continued to “reach out” to the Nazi’s back in 1943. What would we say about a military officer with ties to the Soviet Union during the Cold War? It is a slap in the face to our men and women serving to claim this guy suffered from some sort of pre- PTSD. We are so afraid of what might happen to a soldier who happens to be a Muslim we are forgetting about the 13 who died at Fort Hood. I certainly do not condone any sort of violence towards another simply based on their faith, in fact, that makes us just like them if we do. 

This is a terrorist attack plain and simple. Our soldiers are now concerned about what can happen on a military base, where they should be safe, some may now wonder about the Muslim soldier serving next to them. If these types of fears are not the point of terrorism then please, someone explain what terrorism is. 

I do want to thank those who have and are serving in our armed forces. A special note to my step father who is a disabled Vietnam veteran, I love you and I thank you. For both my step son and step daughter who are currently serving in the Air Force, I love you and thank you. I hope our president will give our troops what they need to complete their mission and come home in victory, the alternative, I hope, is not an option.