This is a followup to a thread that appeared about a week ago. It had a title something like "I want to know why I'm planning my daughter's funeral while George Bush is planning his daughter's wedding." Someone might want to find that and link to it.
Grief Turns to Anger Over War's 'Waste'Grief Turns to Anger Over War's 'Waste'
Family Members Tearfully Bid Farewell to 22-Year-Old 'Girly Girl' From Mitchellville
By Avis Thomas-Lester
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 1, 2007; Page B08
Anika Lawal pursed her lips yesterday when an Army general read the list of honors that had been awarded posthumously to her daughter, Sgt. Princess Crystal-Dawn Samuels. She shook visibly as he took her hand, walked her to Samuels's silver coffin and asked her to place the medals atop the flag draped there.
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"This is a total waste -- a total waste," said the soldier's grandfather, Steve Samuels Sr., looking at the coffin as it sat on plot number 8719 in section 60 of the cemetery. "She shouldn't have been over there. We've got young folks dying fighting a war that they know nothing about. They are not defending a country -- they are being used as pawns."
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Mourners included Prince George's County Council member David Harrington (D-Cheverly), County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) and U.S. Rep. Albert R. Wynn (D-Md.), who was accompanied by his wife, Gaines, who taught Samuels art at Flowers High.
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"I'm just disgusted, personally disgusted, beyond words about what is going on in Iraq and seeing all these beautiful young people die," Johnson said in an interview. "It's even because the president has never defined a national security reason for us being over there. . . . For him to continue to send our young men and women over there supposedly to establish a democracy is a falsehood."
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