Is Five One Time Too Many?
We all know the price our country has paid in blood and sorrow for President Bush’s botched, unnecessary war, but we often forget the other costs paid by those who are deployed over and over again. Someone like Sargent Erik Botta who now faces his FIFTH deployment since volunteering in the days following September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Sargent Botta and his family face losing their home, he facing losing his job and falling behind in earning his degree. No one can deny Sargent Botta is a patriot who’s bravely served his country (well, no one accept moronic Conservatives who will brand him as a traitor), but there comes a point when the men and women serving our country deserve a break. Sargent Botta may have a year left on his contract, a contract that can be extended indefinitely due to stop-loss programs, but he’s earned the right to spend that year getting his life back in order not gearing up to go back into Iraq here his chances of being maimed or killed only increase.