Its the policy, STUPID!
This entry was posted on 6/24/2007 9:55 AM and is filed under Suzanne's Column.
Hello all:
I have been surprised at the vicious attacks on my son and me (particularly me) on other websites. I'm tough I can take it but I will not let anyone disparage my son for what I am doing. My son spent a year of his young life literally kicking in doors in Baghdad and dragging terrorists out of houses. He has served his country admirably. Anyone who volunteers to serve this country to the death is a HERO. No matter how you feel about Bush, no matter how you feel about the war, these kids are HEROES and I won't allow anyone disrespect them on this site. My son and his battle buddies are not mindless pawns and they are most certainly not terrorists. They are HEROES some of whom are being subjected to an unconstitutional policy. People keep pointing out the fact that I am a lawyer and I SHOULD have read the fine print. Do you honestly believe that the ARMY bought the contract to me to review before they had my son sign it. No. Obviously, there are people who don't understand contract law nor do they understand the term "indentured servant". A volunteer ARMY is just that . . . its voluntary and the government should not keep these brave young men beyond their contractual obligation unless they choose to re-enlist. How would you feel if you were a contracted employee and your employer paid you 100,000 per year? Suppose another employer really liked you and wanted to pay you $300,000 per year. You go to your employer when your contract is up and tell him/her that you have decided to leave and your employer says "no, we like you so we are going to keep you." HOW WOULD YOU FEEL? You don't know because you know it could never happen to you. I get e-mails from young men who ask me not to publish their e-mails due to fear of retaliation and some of the hardships that it has caused them is heartbreaking. One young man's friend was stop lossed and now he is a double amputee. Another young man had a great job lined up and a wonderful marriage and now he has neither. Stop loss is incredibly hard on the young men who are subjected to it, their spouses, their children and their parents. Why can't you see that this is about a policy that never should have been passed in the first place. It was a replacement for the draft and yet, that's exactly what it is . . . a backdoor draft. Some of you who have written comments on this site, have written comments on other sites that were much more anti-soldier and much nastier. You say that my son (and others) are getting what they deserve because some of us voted for Bush. Well, to all of you who don't understand this, Bush did not sign the stop loss policy into law, nor did Bill Clinton (although he used it for Bosnia and the Kosovo flyover). Congress passed this law decades ago. Its time for Congress to revoke it. Say what you want about me, sling all the arrows you can but DON'T GET ON ANOTHER WEBSITE AND DISRESPECT OUR BRAVE, PATRIOTIC SOLDIERS. If you have something to say, don't sugar coat it here and then write something much worse on another site. I am watching and I will start copying and pasting. I will not allow our HEROES who have more guts than the vast majority of people who write these comments to be attacked. ITS THE POLICY, STUPID!
