Standing On The Right Of Cindy Sheehan

Not that right. The real right, the right with truth and justice on it’s side. Another military mom, a real mom steps up to the plate. Tammy Pruett didn’t claim she contributed a husband and five sons to the war in Iraq. Rather she says she’s proud to have a husband and five son’s who willingly volunteer to serve their country in time of war. Unlike Cindy Sheehan, Tammy Pruett doesn’t see herself as the center piece of the war in Iraq. She’s not bartering the reputations of her husband and five sons for fifteen minutes of fame. She was called on by President Bush to tell what real mothers of military men and women think and feel.

Whatever we think of the war in Iraq, no one should use the service or the untimely death of those serving as a political platform to enhance a personal agenda. If Cindy Sheehan wants to protest, that’s her right. She doesn’t have a right to attach her sons death to her protest when it is well know he was a volunteer and agreed with what he was doing.

Tammy Pruett’s family, a husband and five sons all serve in the Idaho National Guard. All served in Iraq, four are serving there now. These men of the Pocatello Idaho Unit of the Guard carry a tradition of bravery into battle, Pocatello was an Indian who fought the Whitman in the Bannock Wars. Those same Shoshone Bannock Indians when defeated joined the Whitman in all their wars since, many of them in the same unit as the Pruett family. The service Native American’s are willing to provide can’t be over looked, or disrespected by a Cindy Sheehan. The men in Tammy Pruett’s family carry a proud tradition in the name of Pocatello in to the war, one they won’t disrespect. Nor will Tammy Pruett. Cindy Sheehan on the other hand has no such tradition in her sole.

The latest in the anti-war protesters antics is standing outside Military Hospitals. They stand on their two good legs, holding signs in their two good hands connected to their two good arms with slogans reading,” No More Limbs For Oil, I Gave My Limbs For Bush . How dare they use such deplorable tactics in the presents of those who served and lost in Iraq and Afghanistan? How dare they?

Most of the public question the validity of invading Iraq. That’s a personal choice each of us has to make on our own. Most agree now we’re there and have disrupted for the better or worse to protect the lives of the Iraqi people we are required in the name of decency to remain until the job is completed. Whatever type of government the Iraqis and the Afghans choose is up to them as long as it doesn’t harbor terrorists. The world has had it with terrorists, now the world is working on how to rid ourselves of terrorists and remain civilized societies. We can’t become what they are and remain a free society.

America has always had the Cindy Sheehan’s. It has always had Tammy Pruett’s. Thank God, there’re more Tammy’s than Cindy’s