A tale of two Moms

[Career Prole]

A Mom of a fallen soldier wrote a letter to bush...here is an excerpt from that letter:

All of this lying, fooling, and betraying must be “hard work” George. You really think you know what hard work is?

George, let me tell you what “hard work” really is.

Hard work is seeing your oldest son, your brave and honorable man-child go off to a war that had, and still has, no basis in reality. Hard work is worrying yourself gray and not being able to sleep for 2 weeks because you don’t know if your child is safe.

Hard work is seeing your son’s murder on CNN one Sunday evening while you’re enjoying the last supper you’ll ever truly enjoy again.

Hard work is having three military officers come to your house a few hours later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son…your first born…your kind and gentle sweet baby.

Hard work is burying your child 46 days before his 25th birthday. Hard work is holding your other three children as they lower the body of their big “baba” into the ground. Hard work is not jumping in the grave with him and having the earth cover you both.

But, Dear George, do you know what the hardest work of all is? Trying to digest the fact that the leader of the country that your family has fought for and died for, for generations, lied to you and betrayed your dear boy’s sense of honor and exploited his courage and exploited his loyalty to his buddies...

This fallen soldier's Mom was a guest at the SOTU. Here is a picture of her at the SOTU:



The Dad of another fallen soldier also wrote a letter to bush...here is an excerpt from that letter:

I am writing to you--to tell you how proud and thankful we (his parents and family) are of you and what you are trying to do to protect us all. This was Dan's second tour in Iraq--he knew and said that his being there was to protect us.

I want to encourage you. I hear in your speeches about "staying the course". I also know that many are against you in this "war on Terror" and that you must get weary in the fight to do what is right. We and many others are praying for you to see this through--as Lincoln said, "that these might not have died in vain".

You have a heavy load--we are praying for you.

This fallen soldier's Mom was also a guest at the SOTU. Here is a picture of her at the SOTU:



As you can tell from the pictures, one mom is getting the bum's rush out the door and the other Mom is getting a standing ovation. Perhaps those letters to George had nothing to do with it, and as the corporate media would have us believe it's just a matter of one Mom not being properly attired.

I can't help thinking though that if that was truly the case how come one of Pickles Bush's guests was allowed to attend bare-ass nekkid?



As far as I know, the dog was not arrested and was allowed to stay for the entire speech.
Apparently there are no hard rules on decorum in the Capitol if you know the right people.

[meganmonkey]

1. Makes me sick

:(

Great juxtaposition, btw. Good post.

[Career Prole]

4. Thanks, MM. Made everyone sick, I think.

Hey, a guy can hope, can't he? :(

[dogday]

2. As a Mother of a Soldier In Iraq

I found the contrast to be striking. I posted this the next day....


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=291972

[Career Prole]

3. I just read it. Thanks for the link.

May your son and all the other sons and daughters return home safe and soon! :hug:

[1620rock]

5. So the father of that fallen soldier thinks that his son....

...died for *'s nobel cause, and is happy to have sacrificed his son for * and worships the ground that * walks upon.....then.....words fail me at this point. :cry:

[Career Prole]

6. Sad, isn't it. I wonder how many sons and daughters were cajoled into

going by their parents' unbridled jingoism.
The inclination is to feel sympathy for the sacrifice of the parents as well as the child, but if they're all actually happy with the outcome... :shrug:

[dogday]

7. I prefer to have my Son alive and with me

as opposed to having honor or believing noble cause. Guess that makes me a selfish bitch...

[Cleita]

8. And you got to the crux of the matter.

It's not what you wear, but who you know.

[samhsarah]

9. What a great post. K&R