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Originally posted by Munchkin03
It amazes me how once calm, level-headed mothers (regardless of political affiliation, as some of the most emotional are the ones who supported the war back in 2003) who have lost sons to war will say and do. She is operating off of raw emotion--just like a lot of the family friends who have lost children are acting. Believe me, she's not the only one; she's just the only one who is getting so much media scrutiny.
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This is a slight hijack/off the topic post, but something I've noticed with mothers of Vietnam vets is there was an assumption by many that their sons wouldn't come back. My father, father-in-law and many of my father's friends went to Vietnam, and in almost of all cases their parents sold many of their belongings. The assumption was that there was a good chance their sons wouldn't be returning.
This is purely an observation, so I'm not sure how credible my small sample size is, but I thought it was interesting.
You're right, Mrs. Sheehan is absolutely not the only one - all one need do is go to an anti-war protest anywhere in the country, and you're likely to run into someone who feels the same way that she does.
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