Mother Cursed for questioning War has son in Iraq

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John Byrne

Marsha Walker’s son survived a suicide bomb in Iraq.

Her daughter spent a year in Kuwait last year, and her father is a former Marine reservist. She’s part of a military family; she and her sister went into criminal justice because their father dissuaded them from a military career. Marsha is a Blue Star mother, meaning a mother whose son is serving overseas.

So it came as a bit of a surprise when an email exchange with her local Blue Star chapter concluded with an expletive: “fuckoff.”
The Ohio mom had contacted her local chapter after coming across their website earlier this month. It’s a plain, bright page, one that doesn’t stand out at first glance.

But there was something that caught her eye: an animated montage of planes hitting the World Trade Center and the resulting aftermath. In one image, a man in a bloodstained shirt teeters on the verge of collapse, in another, a panicked crowd looks on in horror. None of the photographs reference current U.S. military operations in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Beneath the graphic is a live clock: “War was declared on the United States of America, 1,414 days, 15 hours, 49 minutes and 12 seconds ago,” referring to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“They’re trying to make a connection between Iraq and 9/11,” she asserts. “I guess that’s supposed to make parents feel better in some way but only the uninformed ones–because if you’re informed, it infuriates you.>>>>>snip

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Date is July 28th