Posted by mysterychix on 5/25/2009, 11:27 am, in reply to "Just got back from a road-trip"
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Let's not forget though that there are other US citizens and US government employees serving in conflict zones and hazardous locations who aren't in the military.
Everyone seems to forget that they are out there in dangerous situations every day doing the work to rebuild nations and protect human rights. In most cases they aren't armed and yet are also the targets of violance and destruction.
They don't get parades or medals...just the thanks of the few people who remember they are out there...
- "A civilian 'surge' of hundreds of additional U.S. officials in Afghanistan would accompany the already approved increase in U.S. troop levels there under a new Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy being completed at the White House, according to administration officials." -- Washington Post, 19 March 2009
- "Teams of US experts in law and management are trying to develop governance by the rule of law in northern Iraq." -- Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2007
- "There are about 100,000 government contractors operating in Iraq, not counting subcontractors, a total that is approaching the size of the U.S. military force there, according to the military's first census of the growing population of civilians operating in the battlefield." -- Washington Post, December 5, 2006
-- "The 5,500 Americans and Iraqis working at the embassy, almost half listed as security, are far more numerous than at any other U.S. mission worldwide. They rarely venture out into the 'Red Zone,' that is, violence-torn Iraq." -- Associated Press, April 14, 2006
-- "3 Western Aid Workers in Iraq Rescued in Military Operation...Christian Peacemaker Teams, which is based in Chicago and Toronto and grew out of a collection of churches including the Mennonites and the Quakers, sends groups of Christians to conflict zones around the world to promote peace and human rights. The four activists had been captured while driving to meet with Sunni Arab leaders in western Baghdad." -- New York Times, March 23, 2006
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