Children should outlive their parents

Anymore, I can't look at any of my children without picturing them in body bags.   That's a totally shocking, obscene  image, I know.    But I can't help it.

My children aren't in danger, they aren't in harm's way, they can't be hurt.   I can't even imagine the pain of Cindy Sheehan - who not only knew the administration lied about the reason for the War, but also used her son's death to glorify it.

Casey was her "baby".   For all the screaming and ranting about the unborn babies we must protect, those of us who've been through labor and delivery know EXACTLY what it is to deliver a live baby.  There's a connection that will never be broken and it's an experience we remember for decades after.   We remember the first smile, the first step, the first reaching out of a tiny fist gripping our finger.   All of this is indelibly imprinted on Cindy, as it is on any woman worthy of the name "Mom'.    

My babies are safe - for now.    But other mothers' children AREN'T.  And we owe it to them - and Casey - to keep them safe.   As long as sons and daughters die in this pointless war, we are called to protect them, as we would our own children.    

It is not enough to put a damn yellow sticker on your van.  If you really support this war, you need to sit down and realistically  imagine your child, or grandchild,  dying for it.  If you really, really "support the troops" shouldn't you  - at the very, very least - devote the same amount of time picturing your own child in a body bag as you do slapping a yellow ribbon on the back of the van?     

Cindy has lived it.  And unless you have, STFU.

eileen from OH