Farmer stands out amid Bush protesters

[True_Blue]

Source: Tulsa World

OKLAHOMA CITY — About three dozen protesters waiting for President Bush on Friday were sandwiched between a country road and a loose strand of yellow tape on one side and a barbed-wire fence and pasture on the other.

When the cry "Impeach Bush" first went up and down the protest line, one of them instinctively moved closer to the fence, which backed to a lush Bermuda grass field and a stand of oak trees.

"I feel more at home over here," said John Scripsick, a farmer and a cattleman from near Pauls Valley.

But Scripsick, 56, also is the father of a son who died in Iraq a year ago, and that's the reason he said he was standing by the road instead of checking on his cattle. His youngest son, Bryan Scripsick, was one of four Marines who were killed when a suicide bomber plowed into their Humvee in Anbar Province.


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[patrice]

1. I cannot imagine losing my son.

:cry: for John Scripsick

[Historic NY]

2. He now knows it was all for a lie...a Republican lie.....a lot of

families are now just waking up to see what * has done.

[Ishoutandscream2]

3. Parents losing their babies in the name of the neo-con agenda

I have an autistic student I work with who lost his brother in Iraq. The year before, this child lost his father to a heart attack. Dad gone one year, his big brother the next. Fuck Bush, Cheney, Kristol, et al. They are murdering war criminals.

On edit - Patrick's mother had to bring her soldier son's wife and newborn baby into the household. The mom is a British ex pat, and she works as an RN. The last time I saw her, she absolutely looked frazeled. Her baby and her husband - gone. And now an autistic child and daughter in law and grandbaby to look after. Goddamnit!!