Melanie House, wife of Petty Officer 3rd Class John House, showed off the words on the shirt of their son, James Cash House, after the memorial service yesterday to honor Hawai'i-based Marines and a sailor killed in the war in Iraq.
Posted on 08/24/2005 4:06:30 PM PDT by LarryDeRobio
Among those at the Boise rally was Melanie House, 27, of Simi Valley. Her husband, John, a Navy corpsman, died along with 30 Marines in a January helicopter crash near Iraq's border with Jordan. House said she had signed up through the liberal group MoveOn.org to host a vigil supporting Sheehan last week, and that group leaders recruited her to take a more prominent role in opposing the war.
Another liberal group, TrueMajority, founded by Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream company, paid for House to fly to Boise. Today, she is expected to arrive in Crawford with Sheehan, who left the protest site last week after her mother became ill in Los Angeles.
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When I click on the link, all I get is a blank screen. I wonder if I'm logged in? I'll turn up the sound and try it again.
"Another liberal group, TrueMajority, founded by Ben Cohen"
I always wondered what old fat stoners did after they retired.
Are they trying to get a new face to replace the whacky Cindy Sheehan? Too late.
You can guarantee people rights, but you sure can't guarantee they'll have a full set of marbles when it comes to exercising them.
Devoted citizens volunteered to serve with distinction. They said they loved this nation and thought it was worth fighting for. Yes, sons and daughters died, and now their moms say they lied.
I don't know much about these men and women who served, but I do know they had more class than at least one of their parents do.
Now you know why I don't eat Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream the same reason that I rooted against the Brave's when Hanoi Jane had a part ownership.
I wonder how much Saudi money is funding these "anti-war" groups? I'm sure the "cash trail" is not easy to trace.
I wonder how much Saudi money is funding these "anti-war" groups? I'm sure the "cash trail" is not easy to trace.
Jersey girls reborn, bring it on, what morons.
Aug. 19, 2005 | The day before he was killed in a helicopter crash near Ar Rutbah in western Iraq, John House, a 28-year-old hospital corpsman in the Navy, told his wife that the worst was over and he'd be coming home in a matter of weeks. "He said, 'We've got one more thing to do, providing security for the elections,'" recalls Melanie House, who's now a 27-year-old widow and single mother living in Simi Valley, Calif. "It seemed too good to be true that he was going to be leaving Iraq." Two days later, "I got a knock on the door," House says. "It was every military wife's worst fear."
Melanie House is no radical. Both she and her husband had initially supported the war, and their attitude toward the effort shifted slowly, over the course of his deployment, as the endeavor began to look increasingly like an unwinnable mistake. Still, when John died, on Jan. 26, 2005, Melanie did not feel compelled to publicly oppose the war; her grief, she says, was too deep.
A few weeks ago, House heard about Cindy Sheehan, the 48-year-old woman who's demanding to meet with the president to discuss the death of her son Casey in Iraq. House too had questions to ask George W. Bush: "Why did my husband die? Why are we over there? Is there an end in sight? What is the plan?" So House decided to join the antiwar movement. On Tuesday, she told her story to reporters in a conference call organized by liberal advocacy groups, and on Wednesday MoveOn.org featured House in an e-mail encouraging its members to attend candlelight vigils around the country to protest the war.
Melanie House, wife of Petty Officer 3rd Class John House, showed off the words on the shirt of their son, James Cash House, after the memorial service yesterday to honor Hawai'i-based Marines and a sailor killed in the war in Iraq.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 · Last updated 7:32 a.m. PT
Anti-war protesters rally near Statehouse on eve of Bush speech
By REBECCA BOONE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BOISE, Idaho -- As the names of the nearly 1,900 American soldiers who have died in Iraq were read over a microphone, Melanie House hushed her 8-month-old son.
"Nothing is going to justify my husband's death," said House, whose husband, U.S. Navy medic John Daniel House, was killed in a January helicopter crash. "Why are we there? What is President Bush trying to get out of this? Why must my son be fatherless?"
House was among more than 100 protesters who gathered at a park across from the Idaho Statehouse on Tuesday, on the eve of President Bush's speech in nearby Nampa.
The protesters want the soldiers to come home from Iraq. Bush's address is expected to focus on why the administration wants them to stay.
House, 27, traveled here from her home in Simi Valley, Calif., after learning that Bush would be in Idaho. She said she thought the proximity might enable the president to better hear her message.
During his Iraq tour, House said her husband often called home to confide that he didn't know why the troops were there.
"He had decided that he wouldn't re-enlist," House said. "After deployment, he was going to get out of the Navy."
Now she wants the president to answer the questions raised by her late husband.
Another protester, Laura McCarthy of Eagle, said she doubts Bush will acknowledge the gathering. Still, she said she believes it's important to let the president know that even in heavily Republican Idaho, there is opposition to the war.
She called on others in the state to follow the example of Cindy Sheehan, the California mom who camped out near Bush's Texas ranch for weeks to protest the war and the death of her son in Iraq.
"President Bush probably breathed a sigh of relief when he touched down in Idaho," McCarthy told the crowd, surrounded by hundreds of tiny crosses symbolizing the troops killed in Iraq. "Guess what? He's going to find a Cindy Sheehan in every community across the U.S."
McCarthy's son, 21-year-old Gavin McCarthy, is serving in Iraq with the Idaho National Guard's 116th brigade, she said.
"Idahoans want the troops brought home," said organizer Liz Paul of the Idaho Peace Coalition. "This is definitely a message to the president that there's no place in America that people aren't against the war."
At least three Boise broadcasters have agreed to air a controversial advertisement from the group Gold Star Families for Peace in which Sheehan accuses Bush of lying to the American people about the war in Iraq.
ABC affiliate KIVI-TV aired the 60-second ad on Tuesday, during daytime hours but not during the newscast, said general manager Bob Rosenthal. NBC affiliate KTVB-TV and FOX affiliate KTRV-TV said they also would run the ad during the day but not during newscasts.
The ad was expected to run both Tuesday and Wednesday, at a cost of less than $10,000 for the three stations.
Jeff Anderson, general manager for CBS affiliate KBCI-TV, said his station believes the advertisement to be factually inaccurate and so refused to run the spot. He declined to elaborate.
And a FReeper.
It's pathetic that these leftist asses take advantage of people who have suffered a loss.
Now this "mother" is using her baby against his will, without his aproval or understanding to promote the anti- war left's ideals, and dihonor his own father, and what he died for.
What she is doing is no different than making him breathe the same air she does while she smokes her dope. Child abuse.
sorry the link isn't working
Now she wants the president to answer the questions raised by her late husband.
These people are so transparent...
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