This one really turned my stomach.......This last Thursday afternoon before work!

As I went into my daily routine after class at the local college and went to work, I sat down to eat lunch.  I heard on the news that there was a 11 year old girl, abducted in Utah and was held captive there for 18 years.  Finally, found and returned home, how could a community let this go on for 18 years in their own area?  Was everybody asleep?  My first initial reaction was pure disgust that someone could let this get go on for so long and not get caught when he was a repeat offender? I was disgusted and lost my appetite to finish eating.  To take a innocent little girl and rape her over and over and have to kids with her is no human when I saw their pictures him and his wife, I saw two empty soulless shells, that walk around having nothing better to do on this earth but to co-exist and bring harm to innocent beings and all for self-fulfillment, I was exasperated in the whole situation, I'm a mommy of two fantastic kids one boy and one 10 year old girl, life is not the same if they were not to be here, to think that anyone would ever touch them, I think I would end up in jail for the things I would do to anybody who were to harm a part of me.  I think religion factored in here someone, somewhere was truly watching over them completely, and I mean them as she had two girls.  He did spare her life and not with out raping her and i'm sure mentally brainwashing her and mentally abusing her that she could never trust again.   Now she has two kids how will she factor them in here with the love god gave her and the strength she would need to get thru this can it be they are a blessing from god, or a detriment not taken to lightely without regard as to how they were brung into this world.  God I hope you are watching over all them as they need it to piece there livces back together after almost two decades...

Life as a female in the U.S. Army...

I know growing up was hard but making choices as a teenager and growing in life day to day were two different things. I was guided in the right direction by both of my parents even though they were divorced. I went into the military to help pay for school as it was my only option back then as I decided to go back to school late after high school let out. I went thru the toughest mind altering, ego breaking, emotional hardening time of my life for 7 months, Military Police back in 1989, at Ft. McClellan, AL. With in a year later I was notified that I was needed in the Persian Gulf, during Desert Shield which eventually within months turned into Desert Storm. I had comradry within the guys in the unit that I served with, but life with the harassment among ones that I served and stood with side by side and other nationalities that I served with side by side in Saudi Arabia, were astounding. They can prepare you mentally for war, the hardness and strength is within the nature of the soldier you are there portraying but the sexual harassment as a young impressinable person even a women, is unbearable as you face it from all sides. They say equal opportunity but I assure you it's not like that at all. I went thru a hell of a time in life to young growing in ways a 19 year old shouldn't but then again my father and his father before him had done in two wars themselves but things were different now, I was not male, I was not turning away, the very first war that females were allowed behind the front lines. Life was not easy as it just started back then and daily I learned much from nothing and strengths that would either make or break me. I have loved and lost since then and then was just the beginning.