[Fiji Hill]

The New American is the house organ of the John Birch Society, once known for its hard line against America's enemies. Nowadays, it seems like a group in which Cindy Sheehan would feel welcome.

[Prime Choice]

Twenty-one-year-old Matthew Holley, born in Idaho and raised in Chula Vista, California, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on November 15.

And it took Herr Grigg until today to actually pretend to give a damn.

[Anti-Bubba182]

That is true, "The New American" is an organ.

[Rembrandt]

I volunteered for the USN in 1967. Males and females have been volunteering for military service during times of war and peace for eons. I would suggest that the vast majority of their parents were not in favor, certainly not during time of war.

But, ask the young folks who volunteered and I'm sure a much different vote emerges. It's natural for parents to try to baby their children but it's also natural for young adults to choose to be adults and willing to accept the consequences. VN may have been a pain in the patoot sometimes but I didn't mind it all that much and have never regretted volunteering since.

[VeniVidiVici]

I think I like the old, traditional American better.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Holley's parents are the ones who complained about the shipment of his body, with the help of dips*** Babs Boxer, as "freight" via commercial air.

[KarinG1]

Us or them, somebody's going to die. Given the choice I prefer them. On to Iran, Syria and North Korea!

[msnimje]

There is NO WAR in Iraq. This proposal is meaningless because they do not even understand what is happening in Iraq.

[armydawg1]

They even have to trot out tired old "hero" John Fonda Murtha to try and make their points.

I get sick and tired of hearing the media complain about caskets being carried as cargo. When will someone ask them if it would be better to prop the body up in row 17, seat C for the flight home?

Of course the containers are in the cargo hold, its the only place on the plane they will fit.