Burning Fires in CA -- National Guard in Iraq

Paul Rieckhoff writes at Huffington's post and he experienced the Iraq war. He works toward helping veterans of both Iraq and Afghanistan through an organization he and other veterans began. The point of the particular article he recently wrote in The Huffington Post is that while many if not most young men in the National Guard throughout the 50 states joined the Guard to be of service to their home states, these young men find themselves in Iraq. With the recent fires in California, it must have been difficult for many of the marines leaving Camp Pendleton to go to Iraq when many of their neighborhoods were in danger and when they could have been available to help put out fires--except for the war intended to keep us safe.