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Cindy and Crowd - Suck It Up
OK, all of you Cindy Sheehan supporting whiners. Yes, it's bad to lose someone in war. But it's also bad for you to whine, cry and try to make political points from the death. In fact, I think we wallow in death too much. My father didn't die in World War II, but he came close. As I've written before, he was shot down over France while on a bombing mission. No one in the U.S. knew exactly what had happened to him for some time. My grandparents learned that my father might be dead in a telegram from the War Department. I've seen the telegram. It's about two lines long and it told my grandparents their only child was missing during a mission over Germany. My grandparents didn't get a visit from the president - an opportunity to voice their views on the war. They didn't even get a visit from a military representative in his best dress uniform. My grandmother was just one of many women on Culver Street whose son had signed up for the Army and had gone on to war. My grandmother and grandfather continued to do what they could for the war effort and waited. Weeks later they got another telegram from the International Red Cross saying that my father was alive and held in a Nazi prison camp. I guess that was better than believing he was dead, but not a lot better. So, suck it up Cindy. I'm sick of your whining. |
