who allegedly had her pro-Bush* taken away and torn up by Democrats. I'm a bit skeptical as to who the person or persons involved in snatching the signs actually were, but no names have been given for them. We did get Daddy's name and a Google search suggests that Phil Parlock is, in addition to being a realtor and unsuccessful school board candidate, a guy who takes his kids to Bush* rallies and gets himself interviewed -- perhaps a bit of a publicity junkie.
Is it just coincidence or does he find ways to get himself noticed? We do need to take that into consideration. I surely would not take my 3 year-old to a Bush* rally and hand her a Kerry sign to wave -- that's asking for a confrontation and placing your little child in a potentially dangerous situation.
Here's the first story, from July 2004:
The Phil Parlock family of Barboursville -- father, mother and 10 children -- likewise made the trip as a family. Rachel, 13, said it was the second time she had seen Bush.
"It was really good that we got the president on the 4th of July," she said.
Her older sister, Pam, 22, said she has seen Bush so many times she has lost count.
"You hope to get closer each time. Hopefully someday we’ll get a handshake," she said.
Pam Parlock said she be-longs to the Marshall Young Republicans, and she could have sat with them, but she wanted to be with her family, even if it cost her the handshake. She is a member of the West Virginia Army National Guard and was called to duty last year. The 1257th Transportation Co., to which she belongs, spent some time at West Point, but it never went overseas, she said.
Alex Parlock, 11, said he shook Bush’s hand four years ago during a campaign visit at Harris Riverfront Park in Huntington. Alex said he was sitting on his father’s shoulders and wearing a Bush mask when then-candidate Bush saw him and shook his hand.
That's from Huntington, W Va. paper:
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2004/July/05/LNspot.htmwhich also featured the Parlocks in April 2003:
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2003/April/10/LNspota.htmThe Parlock family in eastern Cabell County also watched Saddam’s statue -- and his regime -- tumble in Iraq. Pamela Parlock, 20, is a member of Huntington’s 1257th Transportation Company of the West Virginia Army National Guard. She has nine siblings.
Mobilized in March, the 1257th is now at Camp Atterbury, Ind., awaiting deployment.
"When I watched that statue come down and when I saw the cheers of the Iraqis, I knew two things," said Phil Parlock, Pamela’s father. "One, I knew we were doing what we had to do, and, two, we were going to be accepted over there."
Elizabeth Parlock hopes her daughter will be involved in rebuilding Iraq, she said.
"It makes me happy to know that we’re gaining ground,"she said. "It would be nice if everything was done with and she’d be going over to clean up and fix up."
And here's Papa Phil Parlock again, also in a July 2004 article for the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, though at a different site:
http://content.gannettonline.com/gns/iraq/20030719-26621.shtmlPhil Parlock, who has a daughter and son in the West Virginia National Guard, sat and cried when Lynch was brought from the Iraqi hospital.
``I could see my daughter in that situation,'' he said. ``I cried when she was captured, and I cried equally when she was rescued. I could identify with her parents.
``It was one of the most upbeat things of the war to get her back. In actuality, her capture and rescue may have empowered women who want to be in combat because this came out reasonably well. I think it may have made people more accepting of women in combat. But I don't.''
If women get in a position where they need to know how to defend themselves, they should know how, but they shouldn't purposely be put in that position, said Parlock, a Barboursville father of 10 children.
His son Philip, 20, is an intelligence analyst with the 2nd/ 19th Special Forces unit at Kenova. His daughter Pamela, 19, is a truck driver with the 1257th transportation group. She's now stationed at West Point, filling in for a deployed unit there.
There's a chance both could go overseas. The concern for a daughter's welfare in war would have to be a little more gripping than for a son's, he said. That's human nature.
``I worry every time I hear about these suicide bombers and sneaky ambushes, the unconventional war, where our guys are just getting killed,'' Parlock said. ``In a regular war, I would feel comfortable that she'd be alright. Now it's kind of funny, but I'm much more concerned than when it's a full blown war. But I still hope to see her get sent over to do some humanitarian aid. It would be a good experience for her. The Guard serves primarily in domestic assistance. She'd be serving humanity, the country and she'd be reasonably safe.''
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