Live from Crawford
Beth reports on her quest “to retake something that is being used by someone who had no right to claim it”
CINDY Angels Love Meeeee [not you] SHEEHAN: “... and I know that they are in heaven and I know that that’s why this movement is growing because we have tens of thousands of angels behind us that are supporting us, that are saying, “Well you know we died and that was really crappy, but we hope that our deaths are going to make the world a better place,” and it’s up to us to make sure that it does."
Spurred on by that presumptuous statement and the calumnious cooption* of the names of all of those KIA in Iraq, Beth and a friend travelled to “Camp Casey” to retrieve the names of loved ones from a roadside ditch.
I couldn’t help but wonder how all of the [Camp Casey] protesters could camp out on the side of the road for 5 weeks… Don’t they have jobs, responsibilities, lives?
...it’s not that Camp Casey looks more “organized”, per say… but they do look like they’ve done this a time or two. Professionally printed signs, flyers, a shuttle… Camp Reality (and Camp Qualls) was more of a gut response to what they viewed as a dishonor- homemade signs, no central organization. Perhaps it’s because of my own personal bias, but… the Left has a ready-made protest organization, ready and willing to jump in at a moment’s notice. The Right, for the most part, doesn’t protest- we’re not angry all the time.
The camp across the road—and across a wide perceptual divide—from ‘Camp Casey’ is called Camp Reality; “one of the signs at Camp Reality was right- ‘Camp Reality- and, yes, sometimes it bites.’”
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*It is disrespectful not to take someone at their word. It is disrespect in the extreme to impugn to those who cannot speak for themselves. We, no one of us, can know the thoughts of the Fallen; we must take their word as expressed in their behavior. They volunteered for service. Many volunteered to go to combat. Some volunteered to go into extreme danger; some for their mission, some for their compatriots—all for their country. Their behavior is their beliefs made concrete and that is what we can know of them. It is that to which we respond; all else is projection.
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