As the parent of a Gulf War Vet, I feel very blessed that he came home unscarred. If he had not come home, I hope I would have shown the same courage and grace that he did when he left to fight on behalf of the USA. To do less would have dishonored him.
In her public grief, Mrs. Sheehan's disdain for President Bush diminishes her son's honor. I feel so very sorry for her and that she is being exploited by the media in such a tawdry way.
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It is also certainly possible the young man joined the Army, in part (emphasizing, ‘in part,’) because he didn't want to live with his loser mother...
Now his mother is so guilt-ridden she was such a lousy parent and lousy wife (where is his father?) and it took the army to be his mother and really make a man of him, she is jealous, angry and blaming everyone else...