If your son or daughter died in Iraq.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2986623&mesg_id=2986623

I just cannot imagine that horror. That horror is happening right now. Right here. To our friends. To our own. To you and to me.

I cannot imagine how my heart would break, it would likely kill me.

I cannot imagine the grief of attending my own proud son's funeral, and I can't imagine how the horror would be amplified ten-fold if he was wearing his nation's uniform.

And I cannot imagine the hatred and bile I would feel in my soul if it had happened in bush's war, by bush's decree, because then I would have to admit the un-admittable, that he had indeed DIED FOR NOTHING.

I cannot express my grief to see that someone's own family member has died in Iraq. How could anyone bear that grief? How could anyone imagine that grief times three thousand?

Our eloquent president says repeatedly that he feels this grief, he feels it for every single soldier and their families, I heard him say it with my own sickened ears.

My own brother's daughter is going to Iraq next month, I cannot imagine his anxiety and fear. I've talked to her, and she's really in way over her head, she's 30, but still not doing well in the Army, but she's giving it everything she's got, and she's going through with it and bless her, I wish her luck.

I know I would probably die at the coffin, I have three grown kids, and as a father, I think it would actually kill me. My youngest is 23 now, and I want him to live a long life, unencumbered by wars, safe from the president and his men, I don't want him to suddenly get the notion to join up and fight for his country, I don't think I could stand it.

I'm afraid if I looked down into my son's face, I'd see the leering, giggling, smirking face of the man who sent him off to die with treacherous lies, and I think it would simply stop my heart forever.

Look to the white house America, look at that man. Look at what you might face, look with your mind, not your eyes. That man wants your son or daughter to die, and that man cannot ever feel the grief he will subject you to without so much as a second thought.

If your son or daughter died in Iraq, would it strengthen your resolve to stop these men?

It could happen. It could happen to you and yours.

I'd head straight for DC.

And my intentions wouldn't be peaceful protest, either. 'Nuff said.

lecturing people to "support the president." I don't have a son or a daughter there, but a beloved niece's husband who may very well be called up again at any time.

My fight is to stop the neocons before anything else happens.

the father of a soldier killed in Iraq was being interviewed. He was in terrible pain, and he said, "He was my only son. And he died, for what?" I'll never forget that.

I know I would rather die.