Reply #4: My LTTE ...

[TahitiNut]

To: Editor [e-mail]

Welcome Home, Patrick McCaffrey.

My heartfelt sympathy and respect goes out to Ms. Nadia McCaffrey (Mon, Jun. 28, 2004, "Mother allows photos of California soldier's coffin to protest media ban") for the loss of her son and her courage in publicly honoring his sacrifice. As just one Viet Nam Veteran who returned alone, unwelcomed, in the dark of night, to a nation mostly ashamed of his service, I am appalled by those who'd tolerate the anti-democratic blindfold this corrupt administration would place over the eyes of a deluded, myopic public. The sons and daughters of this nation, who entrust not only their lives but their personal volition to that of a government (purportedly) "of the People, by the People and for the People," deserve far more than to be treated with shame and embarrassment upon their return. When we ("the People") fail to honor such sacrifices and fail to give due diligence to that which is undertaken in our name, the shame is ours again, all ours.

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formerly of Los Gatos, California

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<sigh> Not one of my better efforts, but the best I could do this morning. ;(