Army Sgt. Justin Wisniewski of Standish, Mich., was killed last month in Iraq while searching for three missing soldiers.If you're embarrassed by your support for Bush's war, just keep your goddamn mouth shut and don't degrade those who have needlessly died because of it.
As he was buried, the American flag was lowered to half-staff at all the state's buildings, just as it is every time a serviceman or woman in Michigan is killed in Iraq, which has occurred 127 times since late 2003.
"I think that the families really need to know that their loved one will be remembered, and this is a way of remembering them," said Michigan Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm.
But just as the war has ignited debate in this country, so has the decision by 30 states to fly the flag at half-staff for their fallen.
Some war supporters said the gesture is being used by war crtics to make an anti-war statement. The flags at federal buildings are not lowered.
"It's really a statement pro-soldier, pro-family, pro-our communities who have lost these loved ones," Granholm said.
Some said lowering the flag so often, almost every week in Michigan, could trivialize its symbolism.
"If the flag is half staffed all the time, then it will be trivialized in that we won't take notice to it anymore," said Joyce Doody of the National Flag Foundation. "We want to make sure that half-staffing remains a significant, unique gesture of national mourning."
Michigan's governor, Jennifer Granholm, has made the decision that she WILL honor those from our state who have been killed there and we should all be proud of that decision.
Bill O'Reilly, Fox News and the sheep that follow them might want to ignore and hide the truth but this Blue state will not. And those who are too embarrassed and don't give damn, like Joyce Doody, are insignificant, and don't matter anymore.
