In the ABC report they talked with the father. He was none to keen on his sons joining the Military, especially the two younger brothers, after already losing the one son, but he Respected their choice and Backed them as a Father would.
Also in the ABC report we have this:
The family is now secluded in their home; friends say the boys' mother doesn't even want to come out of the bedroom.
"They're shocked, they're stunned," said their pastor Tim McLain Rolen. "The fact that they've been through it before doesn't prepare you for it again."
This is a combination of two reports, ABC still doesn't have their video up.
A Mother becomes a 'GoldStar Mom' for the second time, from the same failed policies.
Respect for 'GoldStar Families', as talked about in the first, like that for those who serve, Veterans, quickly wains in this country, or certainly is lacking, especially in todays world as few are actually sacrificing!
Politicians use the Troops, and 'GoldStar Moms and Families' as political tools and backdrops for their Policies of Choice, certainly not need, and as the Political Tool, calling it 'Patriotism' as they wave the Flag for more death and destruction with fear thrown into the mix, seeking support for already failed policies to further their own selfish needs and wants, Power!
'GoldStar Family Members' who speak of that support are rarely, if ever, attacked for their support, for they shouldn't, not by those who Respect the loss of their loved ones in Service to Country, right or wrong!
But let a 'GoldStar Mom' speak out, in her grief, against the failed policies of War's of Choice and Profit, and many Attack, Verbally Spitting and even pose threats against! For that isn't 'Politically Correct'!
Nothing changes, for that also took place in our last major Debacle, one I and many Vet brothers and sisters served, and Many Died! One who's Lessons, this country, as a single voice, said it would Never Forget, but in our Society 'Never' is a short lived term.
Then as now we put those, rather quickly, who actually Sacrifice quickly out of site and out of our Beautiful Minds for we can't be bothered with 'Remembrance' nor do we want to hear of the 'Costs', in Sacrifice and in what is Owed in taking care of those who return!
There are now 3724 DoD confirmed U.S. Military Death's from Iraq alone, and counting!
That's 3724 'GoldStar Mothers'!
That's thousands of 'GoldStar Family Members'!
The ones constantly in my thoughts are the Children left behind!
War's Developing Casualty: Military Kids
And not only those who lost Fathers and Mothers that serve our country, but especially those in the countries invaded and occupied, for many are killed and maimed, and those who survive quickly lose their childhood to the death and destruction around them.
Iraqi Orphan Wins Soldiers' Hearts
"Child of War"
And also those Veterans, my brothers and sisters, who can never leave the battlefields behind, it's in all of us, but for some the Trauma rises to the surface of the mind triggered by that around them bringing the battlefields back to life!
What's The Cost? Suicide - PTSD
These conflicts, especially Iraq, have greatly damaged what this country is supposed to be about, and endangered it's national security in the hatreds it has raised around this planet!
We will be living the results for many years, giving the children a world that should never have been!!!
Bring Them Home NOW, and Take Care Of Them When They Return, Everything Owed!!
If they were sent to fight, they are too few. If they were sent to die, they are too many!
