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Code Pink's goal in standing outside the gates of Walter Reed Army Medical Center - with signs that read, "Maimed for a Lie," and the like - is to sow feelings of doubt, depression, shame, fear, guilt and other negative emotions among the wounded soldiers and their families, friends and loved ones. It's psychological warfare against our soldiers, their families and passers-by.

Sorry, but I disagree with you that we should ignore them. My parents' generation tried that during VietNam, and we see how well that worked.

Let me share with everyone what happened last Friday...

We had just started unloading our supplies from our vehicles, stacking our bags of signs against a light post, setting up a couple of chairs along the sidewalk, and leaning our several rolled-up flags on a nearby fence, when the horn honks and the HOOAHs from folks leaving WRAMC began.

For anyone else driving by that intersection for the first time, it was not at all evident what we were doing. Our signs were not visible to the people honking their horns, and the only visible part of the flags was the red and white stripes (they were still rolled up).

But the people leaving Walter Reed knew who we were; they had seen us there for three months now (Oh my! Has it been that long already?), and they knew what we were doing. And judging from the enthusiastic response we were getting, before we had even set up our signs and flags and MOAB, they appreciate us being outside those gates to oppose the very negative message that the Code Pink protesters hawk. I saw and heard firsthand that our presence is a great morale booster for those who work, and visit, and live inside WRAMC.

When Code Pink took their war to our wounded soldiers, the doctors and nurses who care for them and their families they crossed a very important line, IMO.