Sgt. Campbell's Sister | A Soldier's Last Request (tissue alert)

[For PaisAn]

Please read this short letter, link at end of post:

To Whom it May Concern
By Brooke M. Campbell
t r u t h o u t | Letter

Friday 03 September 2004
To Whom it May Concern,

I found out that my brother, Sergeant Ryan M. Campbell, was dead during a graduate seminar at Emory University on April 29, 2004. Immediately after a uniformed officer knocked at my mother's door to deliver the message that broke her heart, she called me on my cell phone. She could say nothing but "He's gone." I could say nothing but "No." Over and over again we chanted this refrain to each other over the phone as I made my way across the country to hold her as she wept.

I had made the very same trip in February, cutting classes to spend my brother's two weeks' leave from Baghdad with him. Little did I know then that the next time I saw him would be at Arlington National Cemetery. During those days in February, my brother shared with me his fear, his disillusionment, and his anger. "We had all been led to believe that Iraq posed a serious threat to America as well as its surrounding nations," he said. "We invaded expecting to find weapons of mass destruction and a much more prepared and well-trained Republican Guard waiting for us. It is now a year later, and alas, no weapons of mass destruction or any other real threat, for that matter."
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/090604A.shtml

[NMDemDist2]

1. argh

i hate these bastards, i just hate them :cry:

[walldude]

2. God I hate this war

and the really sad thing is that this kid died for no reason, and he knew it, and the people who sent him there say he was a malcontent if he complained...

[For PaisAn]

3. This line really got to me

"Not only did you cheat him of a long meaningful life, but you cheated him of a meaningful death."

Bush must go. People in the military may just be the ones to make that happen. I find it hard to believe that Bush can still count on their votes.

[wolfgirl]

4. Share this with

everyone who is "waffling" on the vote...

[lostnfound]

5. Kick. nt

[Jim__]

6. So, what's the best way to "Support our Troops"?

Hang yellow ribbons from our cars? Or, do everything we can to bring them home now?

[wellstone dem]

7. Register voters

write letters to the editor
protest
call your congressperson
wear a button
put up a sign
support a vet
support a family with a soldier in Iraq/afghanistan
etc
etc
etc

[For PaisAn]

9. Share this letter with everyone you know

This is the last line of the letter, it's the last words her brother said to her:
"So to whom it may concern: Don't vote for Bush. No. Just don't do it. I would not be happy with you."

[wellstone dem]

8. Read the link

if this article doesn't motivate you to work harder to defeat Bush, nothing will.

[sniffa]

10. kick

[LeftyLou]

11. too sad for words

[johnnie]

12. Powerful

I don't know how anyone can support that asshole who has taken out Country away. I can't wish that his supporters had to go thru what this woman and so many others have to go thru, I only wish that I was as cold hearted and evil as his supporters just for the few minutes of telling them all to go to hell.

[Name removed]

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[Zorra]

14. 1003 dead Americans. Over 7,000 wounded. For what?

Because Bu$h and the PNAC want to use the people and resources of the USA as a police force to protect their corporate interests around the globe.