GOP: The Party of Treason
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/opinion/l05iraq.html?
To the Editor:
Bob Herbert's touching column about Specialist Fourth Class Hugo Luis
Gonzalez, a maimed Iraqi war veteran, hit me especially hard ("Forget
the War? Many Can't," Aug. 4).
I spent last weekend at a Silver Springs, Md., hotel near Walter Reed
Army Medical Center. There, on Sunday morning, I helped a young wife
wheel her legless husband into the elevator, then the dining room. He
dandled a pretty 2-year-old on what remained of his lap. Another tiny
beauty clutched the wheelchair, trying to help.
As we entered the dining room, we saw 10 or 12 cheery young men and
women about to be seated. When the amputee rolled into view, he waved
to the group. Only one of the group waved back. Another gave the vet a
thumbs-up gesture. Strangely, all the others looked away or fumbled
with napkins, newspapers and chairs.
Eavesdropping on them during the meal, I think that I discovered why
so many of them seemed ill at ease. They were members of a
conservative college student group, and the subject of their breakfast
meeting was how to improve their campus recruitment activities.
Some World War II feistiness left in me wanted to ask, "If you're so
ardent about the war, why don't you enlist?"
Art Shay
Deerfield, Ill., Aug. 4, 2005
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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec (aka aka Yang's little poltregeist *****)
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.6 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -1828 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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