Her son, Seth Dvorin, was an Army soldier killed last month about 30 miles south of Baghdad. But Niederer can't quite believe that her 24-year-old boy is gone. She still talks to him.
"I asked his permission to do this," said Niederer, a Pennington, N.J., resident, as she stood outside Dover Air Force Base clutching a poster-sized picture of her son in his dress uniform.
"I said 'If you don't want me to do this, flatten my tires.'" [She told her dead son] "He wants me to do this." [Her dead son did not flatten her tires so he gave her defacto permission?]
Niederer was one of about 600 demonstrators Sunday who marched to the gates of the base to protest the war and complain about restricted access to installations, like Dover, where the bodies of those killed in Iraq are returned.
"I wanted to rip the president's head off. Curse him, yell at him, call him a self-righteous bastard (and a lot of other words). I think if I had him in front of me, I would shoot him in the groined area. Let him suffer. And just continue shooting him there. Put him through misery, like he's doing to everyone else. He doesn't deserve any better." -
Obviously the woman has psychiatric problems and has had them even when her son was alive.