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Originally posted by Not Bob
First, where do you find these pictures? Is there some sort of VRWC clipping service?
On to the substance. When my brother's reserve unit was sent to Iraq 2 years ago, my mother said some of the same things that Cindy Sheehan is now saying -- specifically, that it's easy for people who don't have their military service age children serving in harm's way to talk about "honor" and "duty" and "sacrifice." She specifically asked my brother why he should go if Jenna and Barbara and George P. weren't there. (Then my grandmother mentioned how all of FDR's kids enlisted, and one of them was killed, and my mother said that the dead one was actully Teddy Roosevelt's son, and then my grandmother said that she thought one of the FDR kids died. But I digress.)
You may think that she's crazy, but here in the red state where I live and work, I've heard quite a few mothers of kids in the military agree with her, and get pissed off at the commentary from Fox et al dismissing her as a dupe.
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FDRs kids served but I don't think any of them were killed. TR sons was a general who served in North African and in the Normandy invasion. I am pretty sure he was not killed. I think some of TRs sons dies in WWI.
But during that war everyone went to war. LBJs son in law served in Vietnam but that is about it since WWII.
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