Thank you for sharing that story. I might have joined your son once, but for luck.

Yes looters should be treated like Saudi Arabia treats looters. Hands lopped off and the stump cauterized in boiling oil.

Spending = stealing. Sending money to foreign countries is how politicians steal that money. It's so stupidly simple.

War profiteering is alive and well. Look at the mutual fund of defense contractors. Good place to invest right now. Lose your soul, get rich.

Dobrien, I would never judge poorly of you. As I said elsewhere, I empathized as much as I was able for her but the longer she went the more radicalized she became. At first I thought it was her grief, but then she started traveling, staging events, and things got weirder and weirder.
Life has a way of shattering perceptions the hard way to teach people about itself and show us most time that we really have no clue. I hope I never have to experience what either of you has.

When our son died it was the most devastating thing that ever happened to My wife and I. When I found him one of the first things that came to my mind was how will my sweetheart ever survive this. I mean you go from living a normal life to in the blink of an eye everything changes. As we struggled with the grieving and sadness in the first weeks. we would say things to each other that were helpful , like Alex who was a friendly ,kind , generous soul , befriended kids who seemed left out. In school as a third grader he asked his teacher if he could move his desk next to a student who was struggling so he could help them
Learn. He was a natural athlete , smart and handsome ( taking after his beautiful momma).
We would say to each other that now he is not confined to his body he can help many more some how. I know that is not rational or logical.
It also does not change the man I am today.
You see we were trying to keep it together for our other 2 kids, anything that helped us to continue parenting and being loving supportive spouses was fair game. After a month or so I got a call at work form her. She said she was in the kitchen at the sink and she felt a warm hand on her forehead, the hand gently pushed her into our family room to the couch. She than said she heard a voice ,that she said was Jesus. Immediately Alex and Jesus appeared in front of her. Alex was crying and told her he was so sorry and that he loved her so much. Jesus said to her he is safe and with me , thank you for loving and caring for him. AJ , that gave my wife so much strength and
Relief , I was very grateful she had that experience. Do I think it happened? that answer my friend, has absolutely no value to me My son made a very bad choice the day he died, he was 18 legally an adult. Clearly his Reckless decision was not adultlike. Studies have show the frontal cortex of the male brain matures in most cases at age 24 or 25. Reckless behavior , risk assessment well as little thought to long term consequences for actions are typical.
Take from my reply about my experience what ever judgement of me that you care to.
Peace.

I had empathy for her initially but as she went on and on her conduct showed her to be more of an opportunist and tool (useful idiot) than a grieving or angry mom.

Her son volunteered. He reenlisted. He was killed but not by friendly fire as she contends.

I had a shit ton of notes from that time before I penned anything. I still have a very interesting picture that sums what she-hag was at that time, completely. And, yes I think people can change, but seldom do they, and for the right reasons.

She is dead on about Ukraine, don't know about any of her exploits prior though.

She spoke publicly about her child talking to her from the grave telling her what to do/say and validating her view on the war. Oddly enough she opposed his joining, he did snywau, then she used him to validate and promote her view.

It depends on who says what. From Neo Communists (Democrats), they are stenographers; from Free America they ask the Neo Communists to translate or comment and then act as stenographers.

BTW What does divine my child’s intentions mean?

Nope, I don’t have the detailed knowledge that you do. I suspect if we don’t allow for people to become informed and change their mind we have lost the War.
From her essay...
Now, over 20 years later, I am not liberal, in fact, they terrify me. Ever ones to jump on the newest cause célèbre, liberals, who I am sure, couldn’t name the president of Ukraine two weeks ago, are pledging devotion and love to the U.S. puppet Zelenskyy (displacing the now mostly forgotten Anthony Fauci) (READ ABOUT THE REAL ZELENSKYY HERE). Liberals are the ones dumping out their Russian vodka (many brands here are NOT made in Russia) and boycotting Russian dressing: A product of Vermont. The weirdest thing to me is that they don’t see how truly preposterous they are being with their double-standards. Most democrat faithful still believe the now discredited lie that Putin stole the election from the horrific Hillary Clinton and that somehow Trump is pulling his strings to this day.

I would never divine my child intentions, hold faux media events, or fly around the world to meet and rub elbows with communist dictators. I would take the money she was offered by the left and/or dictaors for being a mouthpiece.
I did have an occasion to correspond with her now ex-husband back then. It's remarkable what you'd use/trade for fame.

So has your view changed on Hanoi Jane as well? Sean Penn?

Peace.

Fair enough, If you don’t read her comments it’s hard to know if she has had a change of heart. BTW I suspect you have never lost a child thankfully.

I was against every war (or police action or action of saving democracy ) since the 80's.
(Prior to that I hadn't enough life experience to make a rational decision - like nearly every American under 35 today.)
None of the military were necessary or advisable. All actions were caused by looting scum in DC, NY, Chicago, LA, Seattle for power and wealth.
For every death and injury of American troops (and innocent civilians), a looter who supported the action should receive an equivalent result: death, injury, and confiscation of assets.
I do not remember Ms. Sheehan.

even a broken clock (traditional) is right twice a day. No, I will not give her a moment of my attention.

Bravo N.

The people have been played by both sides for decades. We now know who the enemy truly is.It is the SLGPC , they seem to own most in both parties the press and our ignorant agencies .
This woman has learned that it wasn’t just Bush but the libs too , that gleefully slaughter human beings.

In reading Mr Biden's well okay Congress's spending bill, I saw we are sending funds to Viet Nam! No way! My brother in law died fighting this war and left 5 orphans. My husband was there twice and wounded. Oh, Great! Bronze Star for Valor! I don't want my tax dollars spent for countries that should support their own people. We aren't doing too good a job of that here!

It saddens me when I see that folded flag. I have 2 of them! Enough is enough. I am so damned tired of war I could barf. Is this the only way some people can see to solve an issue? Don't get the wrong idea. I am a military mother and widow and I wouldn't be angry if our military was protecting our Borders. But to send Billions of dollars to other countries to fight wars when I see teenagers living under a bridge makes me furious!

Yes I agree, I've felt forces trying to destroy slowly our country for a long time.

If only they were stenographers! You let these media people take dictation on something what they write will not at all resemble what was said!

I remember her and at the time I felt she was missing the boat - forgiven because of her mourning her loss. The left was really playing her up. This article, however, to me shows her distrust in a whole new light I can wrap my brain around. From the article: "No one has to gaze across the miles to Russia to look for the reason the world is on the brink of another World War—they just have to look at the criminals in WashedUp, DeCeit and their stenographers in the legacy media." nails it in the nutshell.

Also it would pay the reader to click on the link in the article "Read about the real Zelenskyy here".

Am I a Putin apologist? Hell no! But, by golly, there's a lot more going on here than the "stenographers in the legacy media" will let us know.

Maybe so, at the time but she seems to understand now. Did you read her essay?