Remember POW Bracelets - Now We Have These

[lligrd]

Obama, McCain Wear Soldiers' Wristbands to Frame War Arguments

March 25 (Bloomberg) -- The bomb's blast threw Army Specialist Matthew Stanley from his gunner's turret, leaving his body lifeless on a dusty road in Iraq's Sunni Triangle. When his commander arrived minutes later, the slumping soldier looked asleep, resting in his full body armor.

``I asked him to wear Matthew's bracelet not just for Matthew but all of the other soldiers,'' said Lynn Savage, his mother. ``I think we need to finish what we started.''

Like Stanley, Sergeant Ryan Jopek of the National Guard was hurled posthumously into the debate about how long U.S. forces should remain in Iraq. His mother asked Senator Barack Obama to accept her son's bracelet at a Green Bay, Wisconsin, rally in February, 18 months after Jopek's death, also from a roadside bomb. ``All gave some -- He gave all,'' reads the bracelet Obama wears on his right wrist.

Tracy Jopek wanted ``to show him that the war is real, it affects real people in real places,'' said her 17-year-old son, Steve. She thought Obama should know ``he had support from families of the fallen, too,'' he said.

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[Norrin Radd]

1. Is it a war, or an occupation? n/t

[pansypoo53219]

2. occupation

but georgie thinks having soldiers play 10 little indians til an IED gets them home 1 way or the other is war.