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.
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.