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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