'...O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?...(1 corinthian 15:54) 'He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall be taken away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.'(Isaiah 25:8) Laura, when your article was published some three weeks ago,little did anyboby know that it would be an article of destiny. You beat death to the finishing line by posting an imperishable memorial in honor of the struggle for peace, freedom and democracy. When you quantified the cost of constructing the 120 kilometer Tarin-Kowt to Kandahar road, little did it occur to any of us that your life and your blood would be an imperishable ingredient of that cost. In cutting short the distance and time between these provinces to make life and communications easier for the people, we never knew you would be cutting short your life, in your prime, as a supreme sacrifice for the peace and reconstruction of Afghanistan. You are not the first American soldier to be killed in action by the defeated Taliban terrorists in Kandahar or Afghanistan. But you are the first Lieutenant, the fisrt American soldier, to publicly document on the net through this platform of destiny- ezinearticle.com the graphic account of the civil work of the Peacemaker 864th Combat Engineer (Heavy) Battalion, based in Kandahar, some 23 days before you were murdered by the explosive devices of this treacherous and cruel militia of hate and retrogression. Your blood has become a seal of victory for peace, democracy and freedom in Afghanistan. Your blood has likewise sealed the permanent defeat of dictatorship and terrorism in Afghanistan and the world in general. May the 10,000+ pens of your compatriot expert authors in ezine articles.com and indeed writers worldwide, be lifted up in righteous indignation and be converted to fiery arrows of vengeance, shooting from the mighty hands of God, to locate and strike your wicked murderers. May every hand and life of villagers that you have touched, arise and rebuild peace and prosperity in Afghanistan. Herein lies the mystery of your heroism, you went the extra mile in that documentary masterpiece, in the face of fierce battle to give the world a window behind the battle lines and to demonstrate the superiority of civilty over babarism. I caught the fire of your passion for peace, freedom and democracy between the lines of your first, only and last article. As you delicately manuevoured between the threshold of life and death, we felt your pulsating heartbeats. You showed us the danger, ...the strangers, ...the safety, ...the security, ...the anxieties, ...the hopes, ...and lastly, ...the costs, which included your very life. Thank you for giving the world those exceptional and immortal glimpses into your very life of peace in Kandahar. It was clear from your article that you were in a hurry to pour out your heart for world peace and progress before the wicked could pour out your life. And pour, you did: the length of that masterpiece was eleven time more than the minimum length acceptable by ezinearticles editorial policy. It was as if you knew... Peacemaker Laura, we are proud of you, we feel highly honored that you were numbered with us and sought out among the Greats. May God wipe away the tears of your proud and patriotic family. May God take away the rebuke of America as she continued to defend peace, freedom and democracy world over. Goodbye Maggie, Goodbye Laura, Give a billion laurels to Laura and all the slain soldiers of peace worldwide. |
