Calif. Woman Travels to Iraq to Visit Son

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040405/ap_on_re_us/soldier_mom&cid=519&ncid=1480

SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda woman traveled more than 7,400 miles recently to find her son in Iraq (news - web sites), who is stationed there.

Susan Galleymore, 48, went against the warnings of military officials by showing up for a surprise visit at her 26-year-old son's military base on Feb. 1, seven days after leaving with a group from the Bay Area. snip

Essays posted on her Weblog after her trip have attracted both praise and criticism from other mothers of servicemen. In them, Galleymore describes overcrowded Iraqi hospitals, downtrodden soldiers, and how "jittery GIs shoot Iraqi civilians in the streets." snip

Galleymore's 10-day trip, which was also spent visiting hospitals, orphanages and politicians, was arranged by the women-founded peace activist group Code Pink, whose self-described mission includes "giving President Bush (news - web sites) a pink slip." The group has led about a dozen parents to Iraq over the past few months.

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[proud patriot]

1. Rated it

Go code Pink Go :bounce:

[For PaisAn]

2. Here's Susan Galleymore's website

There are interviews with other parents of soldiers, details of their trip to Iraq, etc.

http://www.motherspeak.org/

[sasquatch]

3. "But MOM!! YOU'RE EMBARESSING ME IN FRONT OF THE GUYS!!"

:evilgrin::silly:
Sorry I couldn't resist. Susan Galleymore will have a Spaten drank in her honor:)

[Toucano]

9. That was my first thought too!

:evilgrin:

[sonias]

4. thanks for the link to the story and web site

Susan Galleymore is a great Mom. Hope her son Nick makes it home safe. That has got to be a very scary thing to see up close and personal. Plus all she can do is try to get the story out, she can't do anything else to protect her son.

Kudos to Code Pink once again!

Today was probably a very bad day for all parents of soldiers. We need to bring those troops home.

Sonia

[Mari333]

5. Good. Susan got on yahoo. Rate it high please she deserves it.

Shes brave, and is putting herself on the front lines in this. I talk to her, and its rough.
So rate it high. Get her on the talk shows, get her more press. She needs all the help she can get, and shes trying really hard to get a database set up on her website of mental health professionals to help returning troops with PTSD.
www.motherspeak.org

and here is the original story in the SF Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/03/MNGIQ609LN1.DTL

[Fridays Child]

6. Gave it a 5!

:kick:

[stevedeshazer]

8. What an incredible story - rated 5

BTW, I think of your Michael every day.

My son is 16 and my daughter and her most excellent boyfriend are both 24.

War is wrong.

[Columbia]

7. 10 days in Iraq

And she only spent 90 minutes with her son?

[leftchick]

10. ahh, doesn't he have a job to do?

:eyes: