The yellow ribbons, symbols of support for our armed forces fighting in the Persian Gulf, are now torn and pale. They are still wrapped around the oak trees near the army air field in Savannah, Georgia, where crowds once cheered and waved American flags to welcome home the men and women who fought in Operation Desert Storm. They have come back from the war in the Persian Gulf.
As in other places, the war is a faded memory, something from our past. All over America, people talk of other issues: the failing economy, the increased of crime in our cities.
The Gulf War is a war few of us think of any more as we worry about domestic problems, but the war is not a forgotten dream for those who fought there and their families.
Return to the English 24 website.