[jim35]

I hate to hear the parents of slain soldiers sounding so bitter and unpatriotic, as if their sons died for nothing. I wonder if their sons would have approved of such sentiments? I think it's unlikely. It dishonors the dead. Maybe they can't help feeling that way, since the loss of a child is so horrendous, but it seems so wrong.

[Outraged]

Maybe they can't help feeling that way, since the loss of a child is so horrendous, but it seems so wrong.

It is impossible to dismiss the grieving of a family, but in this instance this group that is organizing is a simple outgrowth of the anti-American communist machine cloaked in the disguise of feel good sentiment...These people hate America as much as the world's Islamofascists, communists, socialists and God-less neardowells.

Just like the 70s anti-war miscreants, they are either "usefull idiots" or intentionally malevolent.

[VOA]

I hate to hear the parents of slain soldiers sounding so bitter and unpatriotic,
as if their sons died for nothing.

Burying your child is not the natural plan of things.
Just about anything goes when working through that valley of despair...for a couple of
months to a year or so, I'd guess.

[Valin]

I have a feeling that they were "bitter" people before before they lost their son. This sort of thing brings out the best in some people and the worst in others.

[DCPatriot]

Hey, wait a second, will you?

Do you have any children of your own? If you did, you would most likely not utter such nonsense.

To lose any child, regardless of age, but especially in a military exercise, halfway around the world, for a bunch of foreigners that have a completely set of values and standards....geesh. I'd be really upset too.

God bless President Bush and keep him safe.

[Free Vulcan]

If it had been Beezulbubba, and he had unilaterally invaded Vietnam for no apparent reason, these people would have supported it to their last breath. They don't hate the war, just Bush.

[Stultis]

Maybe they can't help feeling that way

I suspect the majority, at least among the most outspoken, hated America and/or were extremist leftists before they lost their children.

[gatorbait]

hate to hear the parents of slain soldiers sounding so bitter and unpatriotic, as if their sons died for nothing. I wonder if their sons would have approved of such sentiments? I think it's unlikely. It dishonors the dead. Maybe they can't help feeling that way, since the loss of a child is so horrendous, but it seems so wrong.

The sentiments expressed by the two losers in the story are not anything new.There are quite a few instances of bitter families as far back as WW1 . Think of Thornton Wilder's "Our Towm". The big difference here is the Left's emphasis upon this,. By the way, anyone recall these sentiments being trumpeted after Task Force Ranger or USS Cole?

Dave

[Howlin]

It dishonors the dead. Maybe they can't help feeling that way, since the loss of a child is so horrendous, but it seems so wrong.

It is a horrendous thing, but the survivors have a CHOICE on how to "conduct" themselves, if you will, after losing a child.

You can blame everybody, up to and including George W. Bush, not to mention God, for what happened to your child while he was living a life he chose to live.

Or you can accept what has happened as a part of life and move on from there, hard as it is.

If you stay angry, it will eat you alive. And pretty soon you don't even remember the good times, you only think about the horror of it all.

And it most certainly DOES dishonor the life their very own child chose to live. IMO, it's disgusting.