Pat Kelly - my son was a Lance Corporal and a warrior for the United States of America.
Over 200 years ago an America said "a tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots".
While I'm not happy my son's blood was chosen to water that tree, I'm very proud my son served his country.
It's been a priviledge to meet other men my son worked with. If they line my sons platoon in front of me, I don't know who I would have picked. It would have been hard, because my son was ready to die for this country. And all the men in his platoon knew that.
I would like to say to Cindy Sheehan " I will support her if she can promise me that after we pull out of Iraq that the terrorists will not attack this country and there will be peace". But I think history supports the fact that that will not happen.
If we pull out, the next place we will be hiding will be in the United States of America.
And I just lost feed to C-Span.
16mo old son, hubby never got to see him....sob