Even with son's death, Raymond Plouhar says it best

Marine who appeared in `Fahrenheit 9/11' killed in Iraq

Even with the tragic death of his son Staff Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar, who had willingly appeared in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (having been unknowingly duped and not realizing that the film was an attack on the Bush administration and the war in Iraq in general), father Raymond Plouhar says it best in the quote found here (from SFGate.com, originally AP news):

"We need to resolve the war," he said. "If we walk out now, my son died for nothing and that will make me mad."


As the article notes, this proud father of a now dead war hero hasn't changed his mind on the war at all. He still believes that his son died for a good cause, and died doing what he believed in.

Despite the protestations of traitorous supposed war heros like Congressman Murtha, or even the resident troll and traitor of JU, the Clueless Old Liberal, or even the protests and pouts by people like Cindy Sheehan, many of these heros are there because they want to be there.

Witness further comments from the proud father of this soldier:

"I'm devastated, sad and proud," Plouhar said of his only son. "This just makes me devoted even more to his belief that people need help in Iraq, and he felt that he was helping."
He said his son was teased a lot as a young kid and protected people as he grew up.
"He liked to protect the underdog," the father said. "All of his buddies from school called saying, `He was my friend when nobody else would be.'"



Sadly, the soldier hero had only 38 days remaining on his current tour in Iraq. 38 days (and the rest of his life) cut short because of terrorists trying to prevent the freedoms we all enjoy from being passed along to and enjoyed by the Iraqi people.


Reading these comments and others like them, how dare anyone in this country suggest we need "redeployment" (another word for CUT AND RUN) or a definite draw down date? We need to continue to let the people fighting this war do the job the best they know how, and let them finish the job that was started. Anything less would be pissing on the grave of Staff Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar and others like him.
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I'm sure it won't be long before someone comes along and blames this death on "the failed military strategy of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld", or claims that the reason that Staff Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar died is because he was in country at a time when we should already have our troops home from Iraq, but those that do will have obviously missed the main points of the original article and will show themselves to be nothing more than pathetic losers who are incapable of anything except bashing our current leadership.
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The parent that honors their children's life and sacrafices shows more love for them than those who exploit them for their own self agrandizement.
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The parent that honors their children's life and sacrafices shows more love for them than those who exploit them for their own self agrandizement.


So true.

There is definitely a world of difference in the way Plouhar (the father) has behaved here versus Cindy Sheehan's absolutely indefensible theatrics.

While Ann Coulter may have been incredibly blunt, brash and perhaps rude and arrogant in her characterizations of Sheehan and the 911 wives, she was also quite correct in her assessment of the behavior of those individuals.
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A hero is a person who sees what needs to be done, and does it, even when it was safer not too.  Raymond Plouhar raised a hero... and became one himself.

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Preach it terp.... the unvarnished truth about what a hero should be.
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