Margaret was stocking green beans at the grocery store in This Small Town.
She looked at me,clearly upset,and said it’s an outrage.
Huh?
IT IS AN OUTRAGE,
OUR BOYS ARE HERO’S NOT CARGO.
They are stacking the bodies like cord wood on those planes.
Margaret best friend’s,son died in Iraq last year.

He died believing in the American ideals.
Fighting for America.
Any one who wants to disagree can kiss her.. grits.

I asked her ,what are yall talking about?
Someone, heard from a friend the news that OUR BOYS were being shipped home as cargo
on commercial, flights.

No military Color Guard
No Respect.
No HONOR.
No FLAG.

Yes this is the south. Still a part of the United States.
We Honor sacrifice, we respect the families who’s sons and daughters
Died for our Country.
To many good men from Small towns in Florida, and other states have died in Iraq.
In a war that no one understands.

By the time my groceries were bagged and
paid for 17 people were involved in the conversation.
The ladies were Confused, about the president, who was taught better than this surely,
the military, what damn fool came up with this?
What happened TO DOING WHAT’S RIGHT?

Mrs C. was at the store also.
She doesn’t curse ever. Her son is serving in Iraq.
Said she’d as soon say be damned as to hear her boy coming home dead with
His body disrespected.
Least they can do for those boys and girls
is show em the respect they earned with their blood.
She was wondering out loud if this is a communist plot,
if the President Bush’s mama
didn’t teach him better than this.

I don’t think she did.

Ferdinand, at the The Conservative Cat has more on this.