Reply #10: I don't even think it's the President's job to attend military funerals. [View All]

[VolcanoJen]

I'm curious, and would like to pose this question to our Vietnam-era DUers... did Johnson attend any funerals? Are there photographs of him attending funerals?

That being said, it's about time someone in this administration put a public face behind this war "effort" by showing up at a funeral. How about Powell, or Rice, or even Cheney? At the very least, it's a custom-made, perfect job for the First Lady. Has anyone seen Pickles?

And if they can't find the time, or, rather, political necessity, to show their respect to the families of the men and women they sent off to an immoral, unnecessary war, maybe they could open up Dover Air Force Base to the press, so that we Americans can see them, and participate in their final homecoming. They are owed that, and it's about time we honored our war dead in the historical American tradition, by giving them the respect, as sons and daughters of our nation, they so richly deserve. Americans should demand the right to welcome our soldiers back home, for the final time. It's a rite of passage that is both patriotic and necessary.

I grow more disgusted, and saddened, every damned day.

- Jennifer