"At first I thought (Ithe war) was a good thing."

[villager]

"I'm not so sure anymore." Listening to the mom of a soldier, right now, in the coffee shop where I sit, talking to some table-mates about what her son is going through.

"He'll be 26 in December..."

"He joined after 9/11, on purpose."

Am I shamelessly eavesdropping? I frankly don't think I've run into a "soldier parent" in my personal life yet...

His unit went to a marketplace, spent $10 U.S. to feed 75 people for a couple of days... good for them...

More as it happens...

[MichiganVote]

1. Agonizing for these people

[villager]

2. Has to be. Pins and needles all the time.

Poor woman. She and her friends have since yielded the table.

[Ladyhawk]

3. My brother's fiancee is a soldier parent.

After training the boy is being sent to Iraq and I have very bad feeling about the whole thing. The kid doesn't make level-headed decisions and I fear for him.

[villager]

5. Best to him.

May there be level heads surrounding him...

[Ladyhawk]

6. That's the best I could hope for.

I hope that kid is surrounded by level heads and decent people. I fear he could be led down the wrong path very easily.

[villager]

7. well -- the President's already done that.

May he tread safely now...

[Ladyhawk]

8. Good point...my whole family is following like lemmings. :( :( n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. I feel for anyone who has/had a loved one in Iraq. It would be even

harder to take, if I suddenly realized that the war, which I previously thought was a *good thing*, was based on lies and didn't need to be fought in the first place. Shame on ** and the corporate owned media for linking 9/11 and Bin Laden with Saddam Hussein! That so many were duped into joining the military, where they thought they would be protecting our country, is despicable!

[villager]

9. and then how do you realize you've put your childrens' lives at risk

for a lie?

It would be unbearable.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Some of us realized that before the

SO shipped out before OIF, and they suspected it as well, but they had no opinion, what is maddening is.. showing all the evidence to congress critetrs and they still voted for it.