Mamas don’t....

Hanan wrote: Thank you, Duende, I'll check out the bookstore and see if they have it. Did you see the article on AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/34122/ regarding this book. There are some interesting remarks from average American citizens at the end of the article, in the �Comments� section. I find myself guilty, at times, for doubting the common sense of �the man on the street,� but then those type of comments give me hope again. And here is a surprising bit of news. Weapons of Mass Destruction Discovered Here: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and North Dakota 8.2.2006 -- On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, the US dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. These nuclear weapons killed over 100,000 people, almost all civilians, and injured many tens of thousands more. Fr. Carl Kabat, 72, Greg Boertje-Obed, 51, and Michael Walli, 57, sit in jail in North Dakota awaiting a federal criminal trial because of weapons of mass destruction and because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I visited them last week. A friendly cab driver in Bismarck told me "If North Dakota seceded from the Union, we would be the world's third most-powerful nuclear state." TruthOut http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206B.shtml

Gee thanks for the history lesson. I don't think anyone knew that America dropped those bombs.

Maryah wrote: Mamas don�t....  Let your bables grow up to be Cowboys! They might end up looking like the Tumbling Texas Tumbleweed!

I do love blue but since you used it I will have to opt for green.  I was waiting for someone to qote Waylon Jennings and the gang.

I would have like to read everyone's post but they are so long, I would be here all day. So I will just give my perspective.

There are wars that are just and wars that are not. Every war will have it's Cindy Sheehan or Jane Fonda.  Sometimes people just want to try and make a difference. She does have a right to do what she does and that's what makes this a free country. If we didn't have people like Cindy Sheehan then the people that we fight against would probably think that all Americans are strongly with their government and approve whole heartedly in this war and they do not. However some people either just need the attention or she needs to express her pain in this way. If the media walked away from that story it would be like it didn't exist. But media attention gives things a lot of value. Many mothers have lost sons and are satisfied with being proud that they died doing what they chose to do.

I am proud to say my dad served in WWII as a medic as he refused to carry a gun. I have yet to figure out why the medics didn't carry them but I guess they were suppose to be off limits.  My dad never spoke much about the war.  I know that it affected him deeply. He hurt inside and kept it inside and we know that is not a good thing.  My dad grew up believeing that men never cry or show emmotion.  I am very proud of my dad and his contribution to WWII.  He is no longer with me.  I also can not imagine what this world would be like if Hitler would have accomplished all he set out to accomplish.  He was a sick and demented man.  Thank God we have men who are willing to die for their county.  It is possible to support the soldiers without supporting this wicked war.