This week's coming headlines, Cindy. Whoa, you weren't kidding about going to Crawford, and I'm proud to see MFSO, VFP, IVAW going with you! Who knows what will happen when you get to Crawford ranch, but the timing might be right for a different outcome than we saw with Max Cleland and Sue Niederer. BTW, folks, Cindy knows Sue and well knows most every military family who has spoken out on the war in Iraq this past 2 + years. She is in the company of supportive friends.
I am member military family of
Military Families Speak Out, Pacific Northwest chapter and unfortunately not as able to do the travelling to participate in the more national events of our mutual organizations. I do my speaking out publicly more in our Pacific Northwest states of Washington and Oregon. Cindy calls me her coastal state friend.
This week another military family in AZ had reason to travel to Texas to visit their Marine friend who suffered severe burns in IED explosion in Iraq and was taken to burn unit in Texas. She phoned me after returning home and dissolved into tears of despair having seen the burn unit victims and the young soldiers minus legs and arms. She said it is indescribeable, and every American ought to see first hand what is happening to our soldiers. She said they would all march to Crawford, Texas to demand an end to war and to bring our young home now.
She describes a proud young Marine, completely covered in gauze and the indignity of lying exposed with only a towel to cover his privates. She describes 'the babies without limbs' and I was confused for a moment, thinking she saw youngsters, which she clarified as 19-20 yr olds, limbless now as their adult lives are just beginning. She said she wanted to take a trip to Crawford and drag the President to see first hand what she just saw at the burn unit in Texas. She could say no more, only cry the tears of heart-wrenching horror.
All who can, please Go to Crawford with Cindy and the GSFP, MFSO, VFP,IRAW, Code Pink, and Crawford House delegation and give real support for our soldiers and their families. I hope this steps up a notch the action steps our movements are taking in their long vigilant efforts to end this craziness BUT they cannot do it alone, folks. We need the American public in step right along with us all in our efforts.
Speak for military families, speak for the troops because sometimes the emotional toll is so great the families are left without words to express what is unexpressable. And it ain't yellow magnets that will do the job, and it ain't divided camps of pro or anti war in Iraq, and it ain't media who pits military family against military family in their little segments of 'balanced' news reports. I know from my own experiences and those of our other military family members experiences, that the average citizens do care....deeply. It matters, believe me.
Cindy, and delegation, if you are arrested and jailed, I'll make sure to find a way to travel to Texas!
Lietta Ruger, member family of MFSO (www.mfso.org)
with 2 loved ones, Iraq veterans facing 2nd deployments to Iraq under Stop Loss.
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