The Day of the Dead

[babsbunny]

http://www.truthout.org/052509A

Monday 25 May 2009

by: Cindy Sheehan, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

I was on an airplane flying to Orange County from Sacramento to attend the al-Awda Conference, which is a Palestinian Right's Conference (al-Awda translates to "The Returning"), when the pilot's voice filled the cabin to make an announcement that I think went unnoticed by most of my fellow passengers, but I heard it.

As the plane was on the approach to John Wayne airport, the Captain came on the intercom to remind us all to "remember our brave troops who have died for our freedom." Even in this post 9-11 paranoid paradigm, if I wasn't belted in for landing, I would have popped out of my seat at 13D and charged up to the cockpit to let the pilot know that my son was killed in Iraq and not one person anywhere in this world is one iota more free because he is dead.

[bbinacan]

1. Cindy

STFU. There are plenty who have died for our freedoms. It's not all about you.

[Towlie]

2. Maybe "... who have died in service to our country" would have been a little better.

"War is a continuation of politics by other means."

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz">Clausewitz, as paraphrased by Gene Hackman in Crimson Tide.

[tech3149]

3. How about "in service to our corporate owners"?

Remember War is a Racket?