Who are these weak-kneed defeatists? Unbelievable.
They are everywhere. Two weeks after my son’s death I was asked to appear at a city council meeting in my home town. They were asking permission to put up a memorial to my son, and the only other soldier lost in our town in this war. It has been almost two years, despite the pain of going to that meeting with the cameras following. Now the council thinks it would be unfair to Veterans of other wars to memorialize those lost in this one. Go figure. I live five miles from Vandenberg, where there have been no casualties. Our city has memorials to WWI,WWII, and VietNam. Nothing will be built for ours. Why? Perhaps it is because there never really was a “Global War on Terror.” I do praise Hurlburt Field and the other cities that have remembered my son, just not the city he grew up in.
Proud mom of Capt.Derek Argel, USAF Combat Control, KIA Memorial Day, Diyala Iraq In Service to God and Country