Our HERO's - the Vets

Susan and Ron Prince, front left, listen to the speakers during a Veterans Day ceremony Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 in Columbus, Ohio, as the Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, who are part of a battalion that lost 48 reservists. Lima Company took 16 of those deaths, sit behind them. The Princes' son Army spc. Kevin William Prince, 22, of Mount Gilead, was killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in Al Haswah, Iraq. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

I could never join the military.  I would never let others decide what they will do with my life. I want to be in control of my life.

 

The ones who do join the military are true hero's. Never knowing who their boss will be.  Giving up all their freedom.   Giving up everything and allowing another person to tell them what they must do. Thinking they are protecting our country (and sometimes they are).  These are true hero's. 

 

I thank all of you who do what I could never do. May you all have Love inside you that we can find our way to Peace. Peace that will save the lives of the ones who join.

THANK YOU!

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TVNL Editor's Comments:  Today is Veterans Day. This is a holiday that America should try to place in the history books. In a civilized society war should be a thing of the past. War should be considered a primitive solution to our problems. War should be a distant memory; something that our kids have problems even believing ever happened. Our kids should be asking us if it was true that people were once so stupid that they launched wars and killed each other en mass.

Maybe the Christian fundamentalists are correct. Maybe there is no such thing as evolution. Humans don’t seem to be evolving these days. Well, their technology is evolving but their society is regressing. On the other hand I would not exactly call this “intelligent” design either. Maybe we are here as part of an experiment gone bad? OK…it’s not evolution and it’s not “intelligent” design. So I’ll just call it “poorly designed evolution.” What do you think?

While I express my thanks to our veterans today I quietly wish that we would stop producing them. Perhaps instead of spending our treasure to produce more veterans we could simply take good care of veterans that we already have produced. Think about it! – Jesse, Editor, TvNewsLIES.org
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Anti-war mom urges students to protest

DEMONSTRATIONS TIMED TO COLIN POWELL VISIT

By Elise Ackerman / Mercury News

Cindy Sheehan, the Bay Area mother whose protest outside President Bush's Texas ranch last summer galvanized the anti-war movement, urged students Wednesday morning to demonstrate against Colin Powell during a scheduled three-day appearance at De Anza College that started later in the day.

Powell is this month's featured speaker in the Celebrity Forum Series presented by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino.

Students for Justice, the anti-war group that invited Sheehan, is holding evening vigils outside Flint Center during Powell's talks and will stage a mock war crimes tribunal to examine Powell's role in U.S. military actions in Iraq and elsewhere today at 1:30 p.m. at the student center.

Addressing a crowd of about 150 people gathered at the student center Wednesday, Sheehan accused the former secretary of state of driving ``the final nail'' in her son's coffin by making the case for a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, even though questions had been raised about whether Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Army Spec. Casey Sheehan died April 4, 2004, in Iraq after his unit was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire.

``We all have blood on our hands, and some of us are covered in blood -- Colin Powell is one of these people,'' Sheehan said.

The 49-year-old mother of four inspired thousands of people to join her during a 26-day vigil in Crawford, Texas, this past August after she demanded to meet the president and talk to him about why the nation had gone to war.

Karen Meredith, a Mountain View mother whose only son, Army Lt. Kenneth Ballard, died in Iraq last year, camped out with Sheehan in August and joined her again Wednesday.

Meredith said Powell needed to be held accountable. ``A lot of us trusted Colin Powell, that he would tell us the truth,'' Meredith said. ``And his current mea culpa isn't going to erase the fact that he lied to the United Nations and he lied to our country.''

Powell's spokeswoman, Peggy Cifrino, said Powell had heard that there might be protests associated with his appearance Wednesday night and did not have a comment.

Sheehan, who recently moved from Vacaville to Berkeley, said she was returning to Crawford for Thanksgiving to renew her vigil. ``We are going to invite George and Laura,'' she said.