Posted on 01/07/2007 9:40:07 AM PST by TheDon
Judy Probst wrote her son's name on one of the thousands of small wooden crosses that stretched along Harbor Boulevard in Garden Grove on Saturday.
Her son, Michael, was killed in a roadside bomb blast in Iraq in February.
"I'm here so that what happened to my son doesn't happen to someone else's," said Probst, of Irvine.
The Gold Star mother was among the 50 or so people who marched, waved signs, listened to speeches, wept and consoled one another during a 24-hour vigil to protest the war in Iraq.
Their signs read "Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded," "No War" and "Worst President Ever." Probst's carried the message, "Bush Lied, My Son Died in Iraq."
Pat Alviso, a member of Military Families Speak Out, said the event was held to commemorate the "horrific milestone of 3,000 American deaths" in Iraq. Protesters wanted to send a message to legislators at the start of the new session of Congress.
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"If our kids can be in the boiling heat and freezing cold, we can do this," Alviso said. "This is nothing."
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In light of that, the last quote is more true than Alviso knows. Alviso and company are only expending a few hours of their lives protesting the war, over 3,000 have died for the cause, and hundreds of thousands of Americans are willing to die for the cause.
Anyone see the WaPo piece this week on the mother of the lt at Ft Lewis refusing to go to Iraq? He says it's an illegal war and he shouldn't have to go. This from a man who enlisted in 2003! Anyway, the mother is going around Capitol Hill looking for support for her son, which was not to be found. He faces court martial.
They are showing how to totally and completely disrespect their own children. Would sure like to hear what her son would have to say about this. Let the protesters go to Iraq to live and then see what they say.
Being against a war before blood and treasure are committed is one thing, demoralizing the nation afterward is in my book treason. Not in the formal execute them sense, but in the sense of betraying the nation and those who have already paid, and continue to pay, the ultimate sacrifice.
If a million have served in Iraq and 3,000 have died, what are the odds of one soldier being killed in Iraq?
Granted, I don't have a child in the military. My brother did serve in Afghanistan. While I would hate to lose a child or relative, I would like to think that I had enough respect for them, their intelligence, courage and honor to support them even after they made the ultimate sacrafice. Right before my brother deployed, we had a family get together. My uncle is a raging liberal and he was going on and on about my brother being crazy re-enlisting to go to war, GWB being wrong, etc. My brother was so pissed, he told me later that he resented the fact that anyone would question his intelligence and that he was not an idiot, he knew exactly what he was doing and believed he was doing the right thing.
Treason against the United States, shall consist of levying war against them, or adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
I take the liberty of quoting one, Sir John Harrington, 1561-1612.
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper; none dare call it treason.
A little different today, thank heaven. Sir John called it right to a certain extent. If a bunch of radicals start to scream and emote against their own country, and use free speech to do it- it takes a bold person to call them down. If the moguls of the MSM do the same thing, they gather momentum.
Damn their souls
That is the obvious fact those against the war are in denial about. It is obscene that those against the war would pervert the ultimate sacrifice of our military into something diametrically opposed to the reason for that sacrifice.
I salute your brother, this is one American who is grateful for men like him.
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