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Originally posted by AKA_Monet
Although Cindy Sheehan is being used as a "lightening rod" for the complacency of our generations--left or right winged--she is still allowing herself to be used for whatever purposes someone has for her...
The rest I haveta say needs to go on another thread...
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I do think she is being used, but I think it's a mutually beneficial relationship. There are those who are using the example of her son as fuel for their personal viewpoints, but she is also using their numbers and protests to lend legitimacy to her complaints. I don't really feel bad for anyone (beyond the "obviously it's painful to lose a member of your family" concept) in this situation.
I agree very much with Munchkin that people of our generation are just not as prepared for soldiers' deaths as they were in previous generations. Part of this is due, of course, to the lack of serious Vietnam-style conflict in our generation. Not meaning to point fingers at anyone, but I also think part of the problem is due to the current administration's stance on what images of the war are being shown to the country. We aren't supposed to see pictures of caskets, of violence, et cetera. That wasn't the case with Vietnam. I think many people -- and I am including myself in this -- just take the lack of violence being shown as a lack of violent acts happening, which is certainly not the case. I know I have had friends in Iraq and I have friends that are there now, and I certainly don't worry that their lives are/were in danger, when chances are that that was not the case at all.