The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have to make sure the Hell the veterans come home from is not the Hell they come back to.
I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.
We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.
Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.
Still I was concerned that politics would get between us and our POWs.
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?
I would like to take a moment of silence to remember all those who lost their lives at the hands of ISIS, especially Americans James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and, most recently, Kayla Mueller.
The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.
I know what soldiers or their families go through.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.