Our heart goes out to the families of service people in Iraq. The young reservists didn't foresee being shipped overseas for long periods of time to fight terrorism.

We are facing a new breed of soldier, the weekend warrior now fighting for his country in a war while the women and children struggle to maintain normalcy at home. All over this country there are families, one by one by one, struggling through a war, while the rest of America watches the Super Bowl, the Grammies and Hitch.

During World War II, we were all in the same boat. We were a country united, fighting the same enemies and having the same deprivation. We were all living under rationing. We were all saving newspapers and tin cans and cooking fat and making balls of tin foil to donate to the war effort. Children were pulling wooden wagons carrying those items to collecting areas to help the troops come home. We were all in it together. We were a united country.

Today, the families of our service people are fighting their own war right here in the United States just to keep their families together, to survive the war. They are being forgotten, one by one by one.

We as a nation have to start looking around and realizing there is more to war than fighting, there is surviving on the home front. This devastation is real and we have to face it and do something real and immediate about it. Our elected officials are beginning to react to the needs of returning service men and the lives of those families that have lost a loved one. But we have to remember the women and children who are here, fighting a war of their own - one by one by one. Let's do something about this injustice.

-DFK