When you see a bully, you'll know what to do. When you see a bully, you can stand up too!

My 2nd grader brought this home from school yesterday. When I read this I was struck at how simply it teaches. A simple four step plan on combating a bully.
Immediately, I made a connection from this elementary school worksheet to the War in Iraq. I received an email this week, challenging anyone who supports our troops to wear blue on fridays. While searching online to be sure the the "Blue Fridays" wasn't just a ploy to have people wear blue in support of a local sports team, or another stand point that I may or may not be interested in, I did find an extensive article posted by some unknown about the war and what a huge waste of time it is.
I couldn't disagree more. With a spouse and 5 other family members serving in the armed forces, I see many instances where this war has been a magnificent trial on the active duty service member and all family involved.
But it seems never clearer to me, than when I saw this ditto sheet. Simply put, our country was bullied in the worst way, the people overseas are still being bullied, it is our duty and our privilege for us to stand up as a group, a nation together.

David O. McKay said:
"There are, however, ...conditions which may justify a truly Christian man to enter...a war. (One of them being:) Defense of a weak nation that is being unjustly crushed by a strong, ruthless one." (in Conference Report, Apr. 1942, pp. 72-73).

Lastly, Alma 43:45-46
"Nevertheless, the Nephites were inspired by a better cause, for they were not fighting for the monarchy nor power but they were fighting for their homes and their liberties, their wives and their children, and their rites... And they were doing that which they felt was the duty which they owed to their God; for the Lord had said unto them, and also unto their fathers, that: Inasmuch as ye are not guilty of the first offense, neither the second, ye shall not suffer ourselves to be slain by the hands of your enemies."

The Pajama Problem

My Zipper is Broken!