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nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are
created equal." Thus begins the Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863, by
President Abraham Lincoln on the battlefield where 50,000 soldiers were killed
or wounded in a three day battle. This ten-sentence speech ends with the words:
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation,
under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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VIRGINIAN-PILOT, NORFOLK, VA, 11/19/05
IRAQ, WEEK OF 11/12-11/18
U.S. Troops Killed - 24
U.S. Troops Wounded - 136
Total U.S. Troops killed since 03/03 - 2085
Total U.S. Troops wounded since 03/03 - 15,704
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The total killed in Iraq is about one third of the size of the small town I am from in
western Virginia... I cannot imagine one third of the population disappearing in two
and one half years... my mind will not stretch that far.

Death has been one of my life long companions but I cannot stretch my imagination
to that degree. I had the same problem following 9/11/01... the numbers became
incomprehensible. A numbness comes far sooner than my mind can absorb the
affectation of this number (2085) and then I try and add the number of wounded...
that's two and one half times the population of my home town... The total number of
all these casualties together (17,789) is the same as counting over one half of the
population of the whole local county area of Rockbridge County, Virginia as injured
or gone from this life...

Then I multiply that by the numbers of other people affected by the death or injury and
the affects are more than staggering when they are applied to people and an area
that you personally know and love. This is the reality check I apply to the numbers I
receive so that I can at least begin to identify with the aftermath.

In addition, I compared the numbers from Iraq to the three day campaign at
Gettysburg in 1863 (50,000) and the cost of performing duty and serving the country
is overwhelming... and all of these numbers are a multiplication of men like Donald
Ryan McGlothlin, our Virginia native son killed this week in Iraq...

AHHHHHHHHHH, the cost of Liberty and its maintenance looms so very, very
large... Then I add in the following costs and some instruction on how to not be one
of these statistics;
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with him — when the officer reached into the car to remove the ignition keys.
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It may seem that I dwell too much on some things... but I try and comprehend what I
receive based upon comparing these things to that which I already know trying to
identify with the people and the situations... I try to know and feel what is happening
so that I do not miss the reality of the messages that come to me. This is part of my
learning process that brings me to be useful to my fellow Peace Keepers in those
situations that you experience that I must go through along with you... it is called
compassion... the ability to go with another through the crisis they are experiencing
and be a support to them through the process. This is how I have come to be able
to know you, identify with you and know what it is like to be where you are as a
Peace Keeper. Walking through the experiences with you brought me to where I can
know your heart and identify with you where you are.

Last night I was privileged to do the invocation for a silent auction held by
Blackwater USA and the American Red Cross Chapter from Elizabeth City, NC.
The purpose was to help raise funds to alleviate the suffering and meet the needs
of people who experienced devastation during the Katrina storm on the Gulf Coast
in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. The theme was compassion... to have
compassion I must be able to identify with the need. I have learned to identify by
experiencing the journey of influence along with you and guided by my Commander-
in-Chief. He cares for you and it is He that has brought me to the place where I can
care for you and about you as well.

The Operations Manual for LIfe says, "The steps of a good man (a useful and not
destructive man) are ordered by the Lord." He cares for you so that you may
receive the good necessary for you to have life and experience life to its fullest for
you.

Confrontation, threats to your well being, stress... and many other things that can
and will become destructive to you are lurking out there along the way that you must
travel... We seek to be a good influence for you in that traveling.

Three things will have negative affect upon you and may ultimately take your life.
Stress... Attitudes... People... these are the raw material of that attack on your
arsenal of personal tools as you apply your personal tools to cope with assignments
and solve the conflicts into which you must enter.

Stress (or distress) happens as you work. Some is good... some is very destructive!
Attitudes... they come in both good and bad varieties... can build you or take you
down. Proper response to the attitudes of others will preserve you. Improper
response to the attitudes of others will cause your own attitude to become
destructive to both you and others. Sometimes we need to be constantly checking
on our own attitude and how it is expressed... if we do not, it might cause us to be
injured or killed. Sometimes we cause our own injury or death by how we direct our
attitude toward the job at hand...
    toward the equipment that we must use...
       toward the people with whom we must deal...
          toward the mannerisms we must use and the actions we must take as we
            deal with both the job at hand and the people involved with us.

My number one goal is your safety... and your survival. Success is important but
without safety and survival there is no success. If anything I do or write ever
causes you to think about your experiences... your assignments... your actions...
your needs... and in that thinking it causes you to make an adjustment for the better
then all of my pounding on this keyboard will have been well worth the effort and
hours spent here.

Checking out thoughts can lead to finding better ways and means of doing the
assignments we must carry out because thinking is the key to finding better ways
to do the things we must do. Thinking can save your life and give success in even
the worst of situations. Peace Keepers are the Ministers of Rightness in this
world according to my Operations Manual for Life. That makes you vitally
important to both my Commander-in-Chief and to me. It took a lot of experience
and a very long journey for me to come to this time and place. He has called
me to care for and about you and to convey whatever good to you that I can in these
troubled times in which we live and in which we must function... and I pray that we
function well, you and I.

Be alert, watchful and suspicious... Be wary. Watch out for the three killers of
Peace Keepers... Stress, Attitudes and People... defeat them in their evil ways
and keep them defeated. Deal with them as you have to in order to accomplish
your assigned tasks... but make sure that you are alert... watchful... suspicious...
and wary. Do all within your abilities to be safe... survive and be successful. You
will be glad that you did. Those who love you will be glad that you did. I will be glad
that you did... and you will be blessed in the process of it all.

"BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!" Take the very best of care of and for yourselves.
Make sure to include your spiritual welfare in the very best of care. You will and do
need for that facet of your life to be strong.

As it has always been... so it still is...

"VICTORIOUS WARRIORS WIN FIRST...
AND THEN GO TO WAR,
WHILE DEFEATED WARRIORS GO TO WAR FIRST...
AND THEN SEEK TO WIN." Sun tzu

ONLY LIVE PEACE KEEPERS SEE THE VICTORY!!!
THEY SEE IT ONLY BECAUSE OTHERS HAVE MADE THEIR ETERNAL
PAYMENTS OF SWEAT, BLOOD, TEARS AND LIFE FOR THAT VICTORY!

WITH THE DEEPEST OF APPRECIATION AND RESPECT...
BE BLESSED (A CONDITION TO BE ENVIED)...
BE SUCCESSFUL... BE SAFE...
My injunction to be safe means doing all you know to do as you do your job... it means
doing the best you can with what you have where you are using all your faculties to get
the job done well and with good results conquering evil and keeping or restoring peace...
it does not mean to avoid duty and honor... it does not mean to cower or allow anything
to hinder you in the process of duty according to rules, law and ethics... it means that if
the demand takes your earthly life you destroy as much evil as possible in the process.
That is my definition of being safe... doing the best you can and leaving the rest to God
or whomever else is responsible... being best employed for the sake and protection of all
the things and people that we hold dear.
Chaplain D. R. Staton (Don - C1) VBPD, VSP ALUMNI,
RETIRED VBPD Officer, Instructor, Senior Chaplain, Director of Chaplains
757-431-2190, chpln1@verizon.net
3709 Beacon Lane, Virginia Beach, VA 23452
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