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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Were/are any of these "children" minours when they enlisted? Were they drafted? I don't understand the issue. They are adults who made a decision to honour and defend their country and the concept of Freedom. Why would Cindy Sheehan disrespect such a noble decision of her adult son?
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Nope and nope. Maybe my mother, who was very familiar with the concept of national honor and sacrifice from not eating much meat, butter, or sugar during World War II so that troops in the field were adequately supplied, didn't think that her son and the rest of the soldiers going off to Iraq were being treated by their commander in chief with the respect and and honor that seems so important to you. Maybe she thought that if Iraq was important enough for the president to gamble with her son's life, then maybe it was important enough for the sons and daughters of the men and women in Washington to sign up, too. Maybe she thought back to the Liberty Ships that her uncle helped build in two weeks in the 1940s, and wondered why troops in the field in Iraq had to buy their own kevlar vests and ceramic inserts. Maybe she remembered that you couldn't buy a new car between 1940 and 1946 because the Big Three were busy making tanks and trucks and jeeps for the war, and wondered why only one company had a contract for making armored Humvees, and was only working single shifts, while men like her son were welding scrap metal to their unarmored vehicles.
And maybe my mother thought that, because of all this, that the president demonstrated that he didn't care enough about the troops to make any sacrifice. Of course, given all her thoughts, I suppose if I posted her picture, you'd just add a comment about how ugly people always seem to hate America. Whatever.
