Please join our campaign to support our troops by BRINGING THEM HOME.

To launch this initiative, we’ve spent innumerable hours talking to people across the political spectrum. Bringing our troops home resonates deeply. Politicians do not understand that this is neither a blue/red, liberal/conservative, ethnic, or religious issue. For our troops in Iraq "it’s time to wrap it up."

If you are willing to help create a collective voice, visit our web site at www.bringthemhome.info.

From this site, you can:

1. Send free messages of support and photos of home (ePostcards) to troops and friends.
2. Order our unique Bring Them Home magnet for your car. The infinity loop symbolizes our commitment to their safe return.
3. Forward this message to everyone you know. Together we can make a difference.

When thousands of ePostcards and magnets are displayed in cyberspace and on our roads, the media, politicians and others will begin the conversation and act on the most important part of declaring Mission Accomplished: Bringing Our Troops Home.

If you want to know what motivated us to stop complaining and commit our money, time and hearts to this campaign read on.

In February, we met at a restaurant to watch a Gonzaga basketball game and have drinks. Tim’s son in law, serving in the Air Force and just back from the Iraqi theater, joined us. Soon enough two more of his friends, also recently back from Iraq, joined us. Each of these servicemen was nineteen to twenty years old. All of them were good natured and filled with the ideas, dreams, and energy that are part of being that wonderful age. One joined the service to accumulate tuition for college, another because he wanted to travel, and the third because he was following in his father's footsteps.

Each of these young men had friends "on the ground" in Iraq, so they were clear about the hopes and tragedies taking place daily. They are being asked to fight a war for which they are not trained, with an unclear mission, and an end that is nowhere in sight. What was most impressive was their lack of rancor. They joined the military and committed to doing their duty. Coming home is up to us, not them.

We woke up the next morning upset and angry. How could we stand by drinking beer and watching basketball knowing that young Americans are dying or coming home seriously wounded for a preemptive war that morphed into a fight against terrorists? How did we get in a fight with terrorists where we've become a stationary target that is easily attacked with a thousand cuts? When did our country decide to spread, rather then defend, our democracy at the point of a bayonet? Patriotism in the face of our leadership's blunders, is it only expressed if the ribbon on the car says "support our troops?"

We think not. As patriots, we can protect our troops and country by bringing them home; we can defeat terrorism by developing an international coalition of resources and manpower that acts nimbly and globally; and we can support Iraq with funds and know how, leaving their type of government and governance to their own wisdom.

That’s our story. With ePostcards and magnets, we can spread the message to Support Our Troops - BRING THEM HOME.