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August 20, 2005
Relatives Reclaim Heroes' Names From Sheehanistas
Posted by Dave Blount at August 20, 2005 9:40 AM
Mike's America has up a good post on one of the props being used on the set of the Cindy Sheehan Show outside the President's ranch. Sheehan's handlers thought it would be effective propaganda to stick crosses in the ground, decorated with the names of fallen American soldiers, thereby drafting these heroes into the antiwar movement, just as Sheehan drafted her own son.
But not all relatives are willing to trade the honor of their love ones' sacrifice for an opportunity to poke their country in the eye. Some are traveling to Crawford to remove the crosses with their relatives' names. Matt and Toni Matula lost their Marine son in Iraq last year. Here's what Matt Matula had to say on KXAN, after going to Crawford to stand up for his son:
He's not a victim, he's a hero. ... I went there and had Matthew's name taken off of there. It's fine for people to grieve their own way. It aggravates me to see them using other people's names to further their cause.
Reclaiming the names of the fallen from the ghouls protesting in Crawford can be a dangerous business. Here's an eyewitness report, via Confederate Yankee (thanks to Josh for the link):
They're not the nice people that CNN is showing. I saw them go over and just about attack a young girl who was very distraught because her brother had died in Iraq, and they had all those crosses up, and his name was on the cross. So the mother and the sister came out to remove that. They didn't want him to be a part of that, and so they encircled her, tried to stop her from being able to get the cross, she finally did. They were just about at the point of attacking her, told her that her brother was a murderer, that he had killed innocent people, and that he died for nothing.
Imagine a grieving young girl being attacked by a horde of sweaty hippies. After reading about this, George Romero movies will never be the same.
