Here's one of the 28%ers

[unhappycamper]

Father turns grief into advocacy for war
By Rebecca Santana - The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Sep 16, 2007 10:28:04 EDT


JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — It’s been more than two years since the military officers showed up at John Wroblewski’s house, their mere presence at his doorstep conveying the horrible news that his eldest son had died in Iraq.

Since that day, Wroblewski has taken a long journey that has included a trip to Iraq to see where his son died, and he’s become an outspoken proponent of the war.

“It makes me feel that I’m doing something for my son, for what he did,” said Wroblewski, sitting on the deck outside his Morris County home next to his wife, Shawn. “When your son or daughter puts on that uniform, you put on that uniform.”

The Wroblewskis’ son, John Thomas Wroblewski or “J.T.” as the family called him, was killed April 6, 2004 in Ramadi, when he and the troops he was with were ambushed. The second lieutenant in the Marines was shot in the head, the bullet piercing the radio he was using to call for help and ripping through the strong, square jaw his mother had always admired.

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For Wroblewski, a father of four, the war will always be personal. He bristles when he hears criticism of the mission or the troops, taking it as a criticism of his son.

“I really feel deep down inside that we are doing the right thing,” he said. “We as Americans have to have the intestinal fortitude to get this job done.”


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/09/ap_fathersgrief_070916/

[hobbit709]

1. I feel sorry for him

[Buzz Clik]

3. I do, too. He's just trying to find a way to deal with his grief.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Yes, I agree. I would guess that it may be a way to cope with

his son's death.

[atreides1]

5. I Don't

It's because of people like him who refuse to look at reality that more sons and daughters will die in this war.

As a proponent of the war his hands are now drenched with the blood of the troops and the Iraqi people, just like the Bush administration!

[crim son]

2. It would take a lot of strength for this man to oppose the war

after losing a child to it. He has my sympathy.

[YOY]

4. It would destroy a little part of him to think otherwise

Imagine coming to the shocking realization that 9-11 had nothing to do with Iraq, that we are not there for the sake of "democracy" or "freedom", and that his son died so that others could make money.

After all that he's been forcing himself to think to justify the situation that kind of thinking would destroy the man...or a least kill of a little part of him that he's been using to cope with his son's death.

Part of me feels for him. There is a reason why he thinks the way he does.

[Bitwit1234]

6. One our of may 500 say we should fight in Iraq

but stop and think of all the mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and wives and husbands that all agree this is a horrendous war, that should not have been.

It makes me so mad I could scream that people say when you want the war to end, you are not supporting the troops. Why should we want our military to stay in Iraq and become a casualty of bush's war? The best support we can have for those brave military that are under fire every day is to bring the survivors home.

And the stupid butthole Blakely last night said on the Yell Show on PBS that this was not bush's war, it was the American people's war. Because we along with bush wanted to punish those who attacked this country. This fat slob is still trying to connect Saddam and Iraq to the attack on the Twin Towers.