By Kelly Mendoza. "For many months I've sat wondering how to get my point across to someone, anyone without sounding as though I was just bitching. I am an army wife. My husband is still here, for now at least. His battalion is talking about deploying in the coming months. For all those families and soldiers that are disgusted with the army leadership, I can sympathize."

Erika Blair. "I am 'new' to military life - not used to the 'tight lipped' field grade officers like my husband that just grind his teeth and say nothing when I rant and rave at the mainstream media and their support of this illegal war."

By Chris C. Williamson. "I cannot vote in the upcoming election, neither can he, as we are both Canadian. He has a resident alien card and was convinced by a recruiter in New York that the Army was a place of opportunity."

By J. Stephen Cleghorn. "I recently heard from my stepson in Iraq, whose name I withhold lest he come to harm from some political ideologue who cannot bear to see a truthful assessment of the mess in Iraq. Among some very nice things he had to say to me for Father's Day, he offered these impressions of the world in which he now lives and hopes to survive. They come from a young man who has made a career of the military and is in a high enough position to know his business."

By Unknown. "Currently, I have several close friends and my own husband deployed in that hell hole. I have recieved 4 letters since May 28th . I have no idea where he is, HIs mother is suffering from terminal cancer and I am due to have our second child in about 4 weeks. He was deployed on the 18th. It is taking an average of 2 weeks to get his mail to me. He gets mine much faster, wonder what the hold up is."

By Shannon Sharrock. "Both my husband and I are graduates of West Point. I have the utmost respect for our men and women and uniform. I know what it is they sacrifice while serving- I know that it is their job to go where our political leaders send them. But always with the call to arms is our understanding that the decision to send our loved ones to war is made in good faith and with infallible intelligence."

By Trish Head. "It was our understanding when he joined the reserve unit that he would be activated or deployed in the event of a war threatening the United States of America, when the fighting was more than the active military could handle alone. As one military wife so eloquently put it on your site, '....the United States is not in the midst of an emergency that threatens its existence'. Yet our spouses/fathers/mothers/sons/daughters that serve in the Reserve and National Guard have become the new active military force."

By Cindy Sheehan. "Dear MFSO, I used to have a son in the Army. Spc Casey Austin Sheehan was killed in an ambush in Sadr City on 04/04/04. Our family was against this "war" from the beginning. We cannot believe that the American people think this is a good thing. But our son joined the Army in 08/00. He loved it and did well and he was a good soldier."

By Ester Holzendorf. "They put our troops in harms way, sent them to kill and/or be killed, and we need to know why. We need to get out of that country, set up a perimeter, provide some humanitarian aide along with the rest of the free world, and let the Iraqi people run their government. This war was not started for humanitarian reasons."

By Unknown. "Just heard about your group on the radio last night. I am glad I am not the only one trying to fight this battle! I was trying to hold it together until yesterday, and then I read in the Kuwait Post that our soldiers have been "pleading for reinforcements" and I just lost it. I began to e-mail any senator from any state that I could get an e-mail to, along with congressmen, etc."

By Unknown. "This is the lot of a Reservist. To be called upon to serve, while their familes are left quite bereft and unconnected to others in the same position. Why you ask? It is because although the people serving meet regularly for drill and short deployments, their families are scattered from pillar to post. In this case, we are scattered all over the state of Florida and southern Georgia."

By Lynn. "I am 70 + yrs old and never have I ever seen such corruption of our country in such a short time."

By Donna Williamson. "We are outraged at the lies and manipulation of this administration. Nothing is as it appears, and new tricks are uncovered every day, it seems. And the audacity of the 'president' who says, 'Bring it on' while he and all his loved ones are safely out of harm's way is more than I can even address in polite company!"

The following letter was received by a professor who supports the work of Military Families Speak Out

By Sharon Smith. "I just received a telephone call this morning at 8:00 a.m. from my 19 year old son, who is stationed in Iraq. He is in the 4th Infantry Division and is stationed two miles outside of Tikirit. My son talked about how hot the weather has been over there in the region. Two days ago, the temperature reached 153 degrees. My son mentioned that soldiers have died of heat exhaustion, one soldier in his unit died in his sleep. How can anyone survive these conditions?"

Melissa, with parents David (Vietnam veteran) and Shelley (daughter of WWII veteran), and grandmother Ruth (wife of WWII veteran). "Once again, my family and I thank you sincerely for what you're doing. Please stay strong and keep fighting and getting the word out; I will do the same. I wish there wasn't a need for a group like this, but together, for the sake of our loved ones, we can and will have to stop the war and bring our troops home."

By Robert S. Smith. "I'm a veteran from the first Gulf War. I retired from the US Army in 1994. My sister's son is an Army SP4 serving somewhere near Baghdad. I am absolutely opposed to this occupation."

By Lori Pittari. "My husband, an Army Reservist has been home a total of 4 months since September 11, 2001. We had a remodeling business that we gave up so that he could serve in Kosovo and Iraq. My husband volunteered to go to Kosovo and Iraq. He felt the need to help out and do what he was trained to do."

By Debbie C. "I hear from my son only once every couple of months with the last time being on December 27th. As a member of MFSO I find it is important to relate to everyone what my son told me about his Christmas in Iraq."

By Pamela Roll. "I heard this group mentioned in the news broadcast and found your site on the web. I need to get involved. I need to get my son home from this ludicrous and shameful fiasco that George calls a 'war against terrorism.'"