You sir are a great American and your son deserves to be honored by us all. I too serve in the US army and would willingly go to Iraq or Afghanistan to fight the tyranny that some would have us live under. I just pray that I am raising my children to feel the same as I do. They also know that freedom isn't free. Unfortunately the price is higher for some than others. God bless you and welcome your son into His kingdom.
Ditto's. I have to sincerely agree that your son did indeed die for a good cause. History will bare this out.
Well said, and amen.
Mr. Williams,
Your story reminded me of Abraham Clark, one of the Founding Fathers who lost two sons in the Revolutionary War. Briefly, here is his story (from an article written by Rush Limbaugh's dad, THE MEN WHO RISKED EVERYTHING).
"And, finally, there is the New Jersey signer, Abraham Clark. He gave two sons to the officer corps in the Revolutionary Army. They were captured and sent to the infamous British prison hulk afloat in New York harbor known as the hell ship "Jersey," where 11,000 American captives were to die. The younger Clarks were treated with a special brutality because of their father. One was put in solitary and given no food. With the end almost in sight, with the war almost won, no one could have blamed Abraham Clark for acceding to the British request when they offered him his sons' lives if he would recant and come out for the King and parliament. The utter despair in this man's heart, the anguish in his very soul, must reach out to each one of us down through 200 years with his answer: "No."
Isn't Cindy Sheehan also from Vacaville? Neighbors?
President Bush started stressing the fact that this would be a long war, that would go on for years, almost as the Trade Center buildings were falling.
He KNEW support would falter because he saw it with his father.
I wish I could say I was suprised.