War of the Parents & the Peace Movement Standing Strong in the Flak
The Washington Post reports that in blue-collar America, it's the parents are hanging up on war and on the recruiters trying to send their sons overseas:
"It's the parents holding me back," [Army recruiter] Broadwater says. When he calls, they hang up the phone, refuse to put their children on the line, tell him off. They try to talk their sons and daughters out of joining, and, more often now, they succeed.
Lots of good commentary on this article and what it means from Under the Same Sun, where I found this link. USS draws some good questions for the peace movement:
So, what are we tell mothers of future dead soldiers? We were afraid to be seen as less than supporting of the troops so we will let them be sent to kill and get killed in an immoral occupation? I am not saying that it was not hard to voice these truths, especially before all the evidence became widely available and before the body bags and bodies missing parts started streaming back home. It is partly a ques
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