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This is foolish. Of course we should honor this brave woman (and I shouldn't even have to say on Free Republic that "brave" is not used by me as some sly Indian reference), but this is not necessarily it. I find it a little slimy that these people have been fighting to change the name of the peak for a long time, and they see her sacrifice as a opportunity to shame the opposition into giving them what they want. They don't care about her. They don't intend this to honor her. Before she died, they would have gladly called it Bill Clinton Peak, I'm sure. It's all about renaming the peak, and this is just their newest, best hope. I say, when they come up with something that really honors her and is only intended to honor her, go for it. Until then, how dare they use her for their petty PC politics?

I find it a little slimy that these people have been fighting to change the name of the peak for a long time, and they see her sacrifice as a opportunity to shame the opposition into giving them what they want.

The most guilty of this tactic are homosexuals. Whenever I have a disagreement with a gay-rights advocate it's not long before I am accused of homophobia. How have we gotten to the point in our culture where disagreeing with homosexuals is somehow morally less clean than having buttsex with another man?

I'll be honest with you. I am not in love with the name Squaw Peak. What I am opposed to is the naked opportunism of using a soldiers death to advance your private political cause. Pfc. Piestewa was from AZ and certainly familiar with Squaw Peak. Did anybody ever hear her complain about the name?

Cousins to these ghouls are the enviornmentalists who are now claiming that we need to shut down all nuclear power plants because they are a target of terrorist attacks.