I've been in the US Army for over 4 years now, in the last year I have been away from my family, I have seen my daughter a total of 3 weeks and I haven't held my wife at night in almost a year. People hate us, say " we shouldn't be over here in Afghanistan and Iraq. Do not hate the troops for protecting your freedom, instead go and complain to your congressman and the president of the US. Tell them the things and the reasons that you don't believe we should be in the middle east and use your freedom of speech on someone that can actually do something about it, instead of hating on the meer people that make it possible for you to do the things that you do in your everyday life.