Well, I was afraid you wouldn't argue with me because I was so adamant! I don't want our discussion to be that way!
With that out of the way, I will agree with you that different people handle their grief in different ways. And frankly, I worry about the ones who "never miss a beat," as you say.
There is a normal pattern for grief and it sounds like you and I went about the same direction, almost over the edge.
But do you see that we had the sense to pull back and realize that the grief is something that will be part of us forever and we just have to accept that?
Read what she said about her first meeting with Bush. Now something has happened to this woman between that meeting and today -- and my opinion is that she LIKES the attention being the mother of a dead soldier brings to her. One of her relatives called a CA talk show and said she was a control freak and that her son had joined the military to get away from her. Now, imagine living with THAT; it must have killed her that, despite her vocal oposition to the war, he defied her by re-upping in 2004, well after the war began.
I agree this woman has major issues -- and that the leftists are using her -- but it's not about her grief anymore; she is enjoying the fame her son's death brought her. IMO.
If this is true the left is not only exploiting a grieving mother but a genuinely mentally ill woman as well.