Reply #1: “Have you all been waiting for me a long time?” she asked the children.

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http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=20100

Photo of Mrs. Cheney, touting her "patriotism" book to military children in Vicenza, Italy, 27 January, 04.



Mrs. Cheney,

The children of military deployed to Iraq, indeed, a brigade that has already suffered many deaths and casualties, with another deployment pending, have more to think about than your book and "patriotism," especially on a day when six more of our soldiers had been killed, and who knows how many more wounded.

If you want "patriotism," why not get your husband to release his iron-clad fist around his rule prohibiting the media from filming flag-draped caskets coming off the cargo planes, and refrain from indoctrinating our soldiers' children, who mean nothing more to you than cannon fodder coming down the pike. Your brand of "patriotism" isn't going to see their families through the absense of a parent for reasons they can't understand.