----Niederer wore a T-shirt that bore the words "President Bush You Killed My Son" and a picture of her son, Army 1st Lt. Seth Dvorin.----
Some parents keep on embarrasing their children even after they're dead.
-Dan
Posted on 09/16/2004 11:44:50 AM PDT by areafiftyone
A Hopewell woman whose son was killed while serving in Iraq was arrested Thursday after she interrupted a campaign speech by first lady Laura Bush.
Sue Niederer had refused to leave the rally and demanded to know why her son was killed in Iraq. She was eventually escorted from the rally site, a local firehouse, by police.
Niederer wore a T-shirt that bore the words "President Bush You Killed My Son" and a picture of her son, Army 1st Lt. Seth Dvorin.
Dvorin was killed in February while trying to disarm a bomb in Iraq. The 24-year-old had just returned to Iraq after spending two weeks with his family.
The first lady continued speaking after the arrest, touting her husband's record on the economy, health care and the war on terror.
More than 700 people attended the rally in the suburban community of 90,000 near Trenton. Hamilton is home to a large number of state employees. It has traditionally been a swing municipality in local, state and national elections.
Republicans are encouraged that recent polls have indicated an erosion of John Kerry's earlier lead in New Jersey.
A Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers Poll last week had Kerry at 43 percent to Bush's 39 percent, erasing a double-digit lead once held by the Democratic challenger.
Mrs. Bush made several references to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks during her speech Thursday. She said that many in New Jersey, including some in neighborhoods near the firehouse, lost family members that day.
"Too many people here had a loved one that went to work in New York that day," Bush said. "It's for our country, it's for our children, our grandchildren that we do the hard work of confronting terror."
Saying that more families have two parents working, she said President Bush will support initiatives allowing for flexible work time and to give increased flexibility in health care coverage.
"We know that families face new challenges and that government should respond to these changing times," said Mrs. Bush.
Because the Islamists want us all to die.
Condolences for the fallen soldier. Head-scratching for his mother. To wit, what exactly did you think your son was going to be doing when you let him volunteer for the military?
There's no easy answer for her, and I'm sure there are many many grief-stricken families who've lost soldiers, but I find the timing suspicious...
Is this the same one who's being coddled by some socialist group like ANSWER? The same woman who one of the DC Freepers (Dr. Raoul?) confronted personally last winter?
Was her son in an ordinance disposal unit?
The woman is griefing a tremendous loss.
If he wasn't EOD, then he deserved to have it go boom in his face.
No boom today, there is always a boom LTCDR Susanne Ivanova
That is what I would like to know.
Did people harangue Eleanor Roosevelt, demanding to know why their son died in the Pacific? Did people harangue Mary Todd Lincoln, demanding to know why their son died at Antietam?
No. They were patriots like their brave sons, and they were sad but proud of the sacrifice their family had made to keep other people free.
Mrs. Niederer is spitting on her son's shining legacy of selflessness and valor and someone close to her should tell her that she is dishonoring her son and her country with her antics.
For the same reason my uncle died in WWII.
Good crap. I'm a former Naval officer, and if God forbid I had found a watery grave, and my mother ever took it in her head to wear a frigging T-SHIRT like that, my ghost would come up from Davy Jones' locker and rip it off her back. I can empathize with this lady's pain, but not her incredible lack of class and character and respect for the dead.
Exactly. But she wouldn't have listened to that obvious truth I'm sure.
Welcome to FreeRepublic, Bella.
Q'PlaQ!!
It is perfectly understandable that someone would have a very hard time dealing with the loss of a son. Certainly she is wrong about the circumstances of her son's death. Despite her protests, we still owe her and her son our thanks. I hope she can at some point come to recognize that her son did his part to keep our nation safe at home.
Her son died a hero. I agree she should not tarnish his memory or dishonor his death.
Her son died trying to ensure that countless other lives are not lost in terror attacks like 9/11/01.
She's a mega communist/socialist loving antiwar indymedia reading LW moonbat:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Sue+Niederer+&btnG=Google+Search
You just did.
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