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.
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.