An interesting study in contrasts ...and class

In an interesting contrast with this character, CNN reports this:

Marine's mother: Support the fight

Dyer among the Marines killed in the August 3 bombing in Iraq

Thursday, August 18, 2005; Posted: 9:10 a.m. EDT (13:10 GMT)

U.S. Marines honor Lance Cpl. Christopher Dyer Wednesday in West Chester, Ohio.

WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) -- The mother of a Marine killed in Iraq urged mourners Wednesday not to let their anger and sadness turn them against the U.S. fight in Iraq.

"Honor me in this way," Kathy Dyer said during a memorial service for Lance Cpl. Christopher J. Dyer, 19, of the Cincinnati suburb of Evendale.

At the funeral at Tri-County Baptist Church, Kathy Dyer delivered what she believed would have been her son's own message: "It has been with the greatest pride I have served ... fighting to preserve freedom."

She said he would want mourners to continue supporting the troops in the war against terrorism.

I would comfortably venture to say that Kathy Dyer is by far more representative of the views of parents of service people (present company included). The fact that Cindy Sheehan continues to discredit her own son's service and sacrifice, and even more so the fact that the whacko left continues to use this woman with obvious issues (much as one would use a person having a tonic-clonic seizure as a carnival ride) is unconscionable, at best.

But then again, given the current leadership on the left, I suppose one could expect no less...


***UPDATE**** Doug has the story of yet another parent's reaction here.