Obama’s bracelet carries Mrs. Jopek’s son’s name, Sgt. Ryan David Jopek, and says Aug. 2, 2006, when he was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. He was 20 years-old. It says, ‘’All gave some — He gave all.”
Mrs. Jopek showed Obama a photo of Ryan smiling, dressed for battle. She said the Senator hugged her and her daughter, asked questions about her son, and told her how much he appreciated the bracelet.
‘’I wanted him to know my son’s name for one thing, for when he’s Commander-In-Chief.’’
Opps....0’s bad
which says,
"Jopek talked about making a career of the military. “He was getting a great sense of accomplishment and felt that he was contributing to the effort,” said his father, Brian.
The father, who is divorced from Jopek’s mother, said she is declining media interviews because “she wants to avoid the Cindy Sheehan situation,” referring to a mother who has publicly crusaded against the war since her son was killed.
The father is leaning toward McCain and said his ex-wife “would like to see the troops come home a little sooner than I would.”
It’s even worse than that... He lied about what she told him tonight. Read the quote I just pulled out of the JSOnline article... According to her statements to the paper she did NOT say “So no mother has to go through what I am going through”. She said, “It wasn’t for anything but for him to know this is real, something he needed to know. . . I do believe (the war) needs to end, but I believe it needs to be done very carefully and very thoughtfully.”
That DOES NOT sound like a “bring them all home right now” statement to me. Also interesting is that Sgt. Jopek’s father ALSO served a year in Iraq.