Earlier today, I heard on CNN about the footage of the POWs, but CNN wasn't showing them due to their graphic nature. Memestreams now has these pictures, and without really thinking about it, I popped open the website to take a look at what CNN wouldn't show. Now that I have, I felt the need to vent, so here it is. Definitly stop and think about it before you look at these pictures. Because I don't think I will ever be able to get those images out of my head again, and I am consumed with a horrible feeling. Here I sit, with my freedom that I take for granted every day. Freedom that I don't even really think about, because it has never been taken away from me. When I look at those pictures, they make me want to puke. Not because of the images themselves, as grotesque as they are. I want to throw up and cry because of what they represent. These are pictures of people who have obviously been tortured, and who have consequently been killed, execution style. These are people that were killed this way protecting my freedom.
Now I am left with a horrible feeling. Since this war started, I, like many of you, have been glued to CNN. I have watched this war unfold from the days leading up to it, to the unexpected wed. night attacks in Baghdad, to what it has unfolded to now. It makes me feel strange to watch a war from the comfort of my own home. And now that I have looked at those pictures, this has been driven home to me.
I feel powerless. I feel frustrated. And I feel my freedom, wrapped around me like a protective blanket....a blanket weaved with souls.

I guess I just wanted people to be aware of these pictures. I do not recommend looking at them, because it will only frustrate and sadden you, or perhaps make you angry. They are an important piece of history, but at the same time, they are a piece of history that leaves a horrible taste in your mouth...history that will probably give me nightmares.

Please, regardless of your political feelings about this war, support our troops, no matter what. Stop and think about what they are doing for you. Through my tear-filled eyes, I see courage that I have never seen before. For the first time in my life, I see angels.

-Nanochick