My heart weeps tonight as so many people have been treated with so much disregard. There is no one who is expendable. How are we not willing to pay a price to offer rescue? I don't want to get into the politics of a 20 year war. I don't disagree with ending it. But I believe with all my heart that everyone who had skin in this war needs to feel our earnest gratitude for the price they have paid. We need to honor the gift of aid from the Afghan people with aid in return. We need to let our Christian brethren in Afghanistan know that we hear their plight and we are earnestly lifting them up in our prayers! The wolves have come and we have left many to them. Oh God defend those that we have not defended. How can we now ask for Your mercy when we have not offered any?
God have mercy on all who are suffering tonight. Honor those who have served selflessly. Please help us not turn our faces away from the pain but to stand up for the vulnerable. That is who we are, that is what we do... what marine can live with himself if he were to leave even one man behind? God comfort the comfortless tonight and bring rescue!
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