They are preyed upon by leftist groups like Military Families Speaking Out and Global Exchange. Skillfully the communists work to turn the families' grief and sadness to anger and hate.
Bingo, this is an organized front manufactured in a fashion similar to the telemarketers who called the old folks in Florida and scared them into calling Robert Wexler to engineer a fraud, in 2000.
Anyone doubting the true underpinnings of this movement I urge you to pull out the barfbag and watch this spectacle arranged by John Conyers and Maxine Waters, with the ("Military Families to end U.S. Military involvement in Iraq").