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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPowerful photo of a young widow's grief. Everyone who voted for the war should be forced to see it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139802/Portrait-widows-grief-Wife-fallen-U-S-soldier-weeps-coffin-arrives-Tennessee.html#comments
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Powerful photo of a young widow's grief. Everyone who voted for the war should be forced to see it. (Original Post)
Peregrine Took
May 2012
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Faygo Kid
(21,491 posts)1. Here it is. A lesson here to be sure.
Mitt Romney "served" in France during the Vietnam War, yet protested FOR the draft in his college years. Of course, none of his five sons served in the military. Which would be fine, except they, like the rest of the rich GOP, are happy to make wars that have other people's children die. And to create grieving widows.

LoisB
(12,592 posts)10. There is something obscene about this woman-girl being a goddamn WIDOW!! The only thing
more obscene is that her barely adult husband is dead. Wars should be fought by the filthy old men who start them. BRING THEM ALL HOME NOW!!!! Just declare victory and get the hell out. I hate this crap.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)2. Another one--a mother's grief...

11 Bravo
(24,292 posts)5. I think I'll send that one to Pam Geller.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)11. I have seen that before, but it never fails
to shake me to my core.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)3. Du rec. Nt
tilsammans
(2,549 posts)4. War is not the answer. It's NEVER the answer. n/t
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)6. For those who voted for the endless wars, it doesn't compare to this:

Do those who have said that they want to end the Middle-Eastern wars really want to do so?
If so, when is this happy event going to occur?
valerief
(53,235 posts)9. That's what war is all about. nt
erpowers
(9,438 posts)7. Everyone
It is not just the people who voted for the war who should have to see that picture. Everyone should be forced to see that picture.
valerief
(53,235 posts)8. War is insanity. nt
Locrian
(4,523 posts)12. this one always haunts me

KG
(28,793 posts)13. and to all who claim that somehow the US just can't quit the ones it's in now...
Ruby the Liberal
(26,617 posts)14. Marine widow

sad sally
(2,627 posts)15. War leaves so many aching hearts, longing for those who are lost...

(from Afghanistan)
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)16. And we are STILL doing it...
and are rah rah-ing about a POTUS that jokes about drones.
rsmith6621
(6,942 posts)17. Ya Know......
....... We cant be bothered looking at these images when NASCAR is in season.
