Friday, November 25, 2005

Sheehan's Thanksgiving Open Letter to Bush

Please read Cindy's open letter to Bush that really rang true to me after I read this article in the Oregonian. Here is what Cindy has to say to the Prez: "George, you had everything handed to you on a silver platter. I don't blame you for using your family influence to get out of serving in Vietnam. I don't blame anyone for trying to get out of that disastrous and totally evil war. What I do blame you for is killing my son in another disastrous and evil war." Here is what Fran Rauschkolbs had to say about her son Jan: "Jan was in S Vietnam in 1969. The morning of May 25, he penned this note to his parents after his company had set up an ambush of the Vietcong: ". . . It's my job to search the bodies for papers and weapons. It was pretty gruesome touching stiff corpses with no heads or arms, and trying to take off packs was awful. . . I wish I could have had a camera to show someone what war is really all about if I am ever asked. The dead were nothing but kids of about 16." By 4 that afternoon, Jan was dead, killed in a mortar attack. "This," his mother says as she waves her hand around his bedroom that is still filled w/all of his belongings as he left them in 1968,"is what's left." But now, as the death toll in Iraq rises, Fran finds herself with the familiar sick feeling in the pit of her stomach as she thinks about the families, and how they will struggle, numb, through this season. More than turkey, more than pies, more than smooth gravy, all that anyone in those families can think of will be this: where they were when the car with those officers pulled in their driveway." How many more families have to suffer this fate?
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