What's a peacenik to do when son joins Army?

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | December 24, 2004 | CATHLEEN FALSANI RELIGION WRITER

[Tax-chick]

I'm sure Father Mike realizes his own politics are a luxury paid for by men like his son.

If he's honest, he does ... but that's an open question :-).

[Starwolf]

We had a similar kind of thing happen in our family. My nephew enlisted. He reports on the 27th. Our family is firmly conservative, so we don't have any of the angst the peacenik father in this story does. That does not mean we are not praying for his safety.

[cubreporter]

What the?????? This is beyond the pale.

[OldEagle]

His father needs to thank him for having balls enough to want to defend his country and be proud of him. As a parent I know that we teach our children to analyze situations and to make decisions and long as they make the same decisions as we would we are proud. In situations like this we still have to be proud.

[G.Mason]

"May I steal your tagline?"

Steal?

Of course not!

I'll give it to you, but you must give it back when you are done.

Merry Christmas!

"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."

– Theodore Roosevelt, July 27, 1917

[ma bell]

I'd say they have finally achieved the American Dream, a son in the military to protect and give people like his father that opportunity to protest and spit in the very Marines and soldiers face that fought and died to give them that right.

[Tax-chick]

Good luck to your nephew ... he's fortunate to have a family that takes pride in his service!

My husband did 10 years in the Air Force, and my brother is about to hit 20.

[jrfaug06]

He is more worried about what his friends will say behind his back as they gosspip about his "failure" to teach his son properly.


John

[shadowman99]

A Roman-Catholic PASTOR??? With a SON???

WTF???

[Travis McGee]

What is the quote by the famous 18th century English philosopher (name escapes me) about the worst moral state being unwillingness to fight for anything?

[risk]

John 15:13

[chuckwalla]

His son is light years more mature than his infantile father.
He has realized that it takes brave people to protect his fathers right to protest those who protect him.

[YOUGOTIT]

Will you spit on him like you spit on us when we came home from Vietnam?

[GOP_1900AD]

My advice is even simpler: grow up. There is a sad irony that the children of boomers are often more mature and stable than their parents. Heck, don't even have to wait for Alzheimers to set in for the folks to be into their second childhoods because they never LEFT childhood!

[GOP_1900AD]

You speak the truth.

[El Gran Salseron]

Thank you, kind sir.

You're a gentleman and a scholar and there just aren't too many of us left. :-)

A very Merry Christmas and joyous New Year to you and yours. :-)

[BartMan1]

There is a God, and sometimes he is an angry God...

Where do they find such men ?

[G.Mason]

I'm not sure. Could it be this?

"All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke

[G.Mason]

"Thank you, kind sir. "

No, It is I who thank you, as you have honored me.