My local paper: "Rochester families grow weary of war"

[LosinIt]

In the three months since President Bush declared victory in the Iraq war, more than 100 Americans have lost their lives in the country that still appears to be very much at war with America. This week, a National Guard member from Clifton Springs, Ontario County, was among those killed.

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“I cringe every morning when the radio goes on or the TV goes on and they say another soldier’s been shot,” said Janice Brewer of Charlotte, whose son, Rob, 26, is an Army captain in Baghdad.

“He keeps telling me, ‘Don’t worry, Mom, I’m in a pretty guarded area and I’m not out on the streets very often.’ He might not be there, but there are an awful lot of other soldiers who are,” she said.

Other parents mention the same kind of cringing, no matter whether their sons and daughters are in the line of fire abroad or safely stateside.

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http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/0801E51CILF_waraniov_news.shtml

The article also has comments from a gun-ho Vietnam vet, but he too is becoming disenchanted.

[dArKeR]

1. I like to see exposure on the type of thousands of wounded!