Anybody Else Had Their Guts Punched By This Photo ???

[WillyT]

From the NYC 3\20 protest...



And as much as I want to use it in my sig line as a constant reminder, I just can't get comfortable with that. Why???

:shrug:

[thingfish]

1. I'm sure the Freeper Filth came up with some hilarious captions for it.

x

[kiahzero]

2. Because you have a soul

I just watched this last night:
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/true911.html

I got really choked up and disconcerted afterwards... made it really hard to get to sleep.

[tom_paine]

3. Just saw it, and yes, guts punched...

:evilfrown:

[heidiho]

4. She Has Every Right To Do This

and much more so since she has been so affected. I applaud her courage.

[Randomthought]

5. Yes

When I first saw the photo I sobbed out loud. The grief on that woman's face is all we ever need to know of war.

[Catfight]

6. It's true

Bu$h has innocent blood on his hands...home and abroad. All human life should be revered. It's sickening that he's free to propagate his lies every second. We should be watching our American trial for impeachment, not listening to 9/11. Bu$h wants accountability in the White House, he better be ready to eat his own words.

[RebelOne]

7. Yes, I saw her on TV and got choked up.

[Arkana]

8. It's awful, to be sure

That poor woman...I can't begin to imagine what she's going through. But she's right: George W. Bush* may as well have put a gun to her son's head and pulled the trigger, for sending them out on a personal vendetta had the same effect. That administration is sick.

[IrateCitizen]

9. Yeah, I did

Nothing brings home the utter pointlessness of war and imperial conquest like this statement does.

[burythehatchet]

10. A moment from the Atlanta protest

There was a woman there with her daughter. The daughter was an absolutely beautiful woman who looked about 20.

She had just returned from Iraq the day before. She was well. She had all her limbs. She was not permanently scarred. She came home.

The mother took the mike to speak against the war but before she could get her first sentense out she was sobbing. Her daughter was also crying.

I'm a father myself, with a 16 y.o. son. While all this was going on I put my family in their shoes and I could not contain my emotions. It really shook me up to think about what our lives would be like if my son had been there. For a few moments, I believe I felt the pain and anguish.

I don't know them but I sure did hug them.

The horror that George Bush, his family, and his cohorts have visited upon this planet, is really beyond my comprehension.

[WillyT]

13. Man... That Story Had Me Wellin Up Too !!!

That's the problem with so many people today. No Empathy, No Sympathy.

Matter of fact, the only ___pathy relative to the 'right' is...

Pathological!

:shrug:

[Mari333]

11. She is a hero and a patriot I can only imagine

the flak she is getting. Im getting flak and have to "keep quiet" now or they might let my child be killed if I dont stop speaking out..and thats why Im being quiet at a local level.
This woman is a true patriot, and a true hero. She is who I think about when I feel tired and kowtowed and beaten down.
I pray to god I never have to carry that sign. I pray every day. Im always living in that fear.
May she find solace in the comfort of other peoples arms, who understand what she is going thru.
God, I dont ever want to go thru that tho.
http://www.mfso.org

[WillyT]

12. I'm Prayin For Ya Too Mari333, And Your Son !!!

:hug::loveya::hug:

[redqueen]

14. Not really, actually

I have this freakish abnormality, it seems.

The cries of the innocent children of Afghanistan and Iraq... the wails of their sobbing parents... the inner anguish of those Americans whose children have been sacrificed to the god Mannon yet still somehow manage to defend the occupation - or worse - bush!... this kind of stuff stays with me always. Same as the knowledge that it's been going on since time immemorial, and will continue until WE STOP IT.

We are all one. We are all connected. In all you do, with every breath you take, consider your fellow man. ALL of them.

[FlaGranny]

15. We all ARE one,

but when you have the experience of that mother who lost her son, the rest of the world disappears for a while and you can only feel your own pain. Then the world comes back with a vengeance and you begin to feel the pain of others as you never did before.

[redqueen]

18. That is true

I have not had that experience.

I just wish it didn't take having it be YOUR child whose life is on the line before people woke up to the inhumanity of it.

The fact that so many people still seem so willing to be led to kill their fellow man by a few jingoistic mantras absolutely devastates me.

[MadProphetMargin]

16. Her son, even if he was the lowliest private, was worth more than Bush &

his entire cabinet COMBINED.

We are led by liars, fools, and thieves. They need to go.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. Gaaaaa

I feel as if my heart became a lump of lead and sank through my intestines. :cry:

[davsand]

19. That one gets to me too.

I'm like you--it just carries a huge impact on me--and I just can't bring myself to use it in any way.

Shortly before we invaded Iraq, I was talking to a Dad of a kid who was going over there. I congratulated him on his wonderful son who was in service and was gonna leave it at that when he asked me if I supported the "war." I told him then that there was no case made to go in there and that I felt we were gonna lose lives unnecessarily.

He looked me in the eye and told me he had to believe it was the right thing to do--otherwise he'd never be able to let his kid go over there.

THAT has haunted me, and it has tempered how I speak about that war. I can't imagine how it feels to have lost anyone over there and feel it was wrong. My heart goes out to all impacted by this wretched mess.

Laura

[Raenelle]

20. God bless her. You can't look at the picture without tearing up.

[WillyT]

21. Kick !!!

:kick:

[lostnfound]

22. God damn Bush.

I saw this woman on the Dennis Kucinich video, too.

Lady, wherever you are, God bless you and God bless your son.