Wellstone Was a True Champion of War Heroes

[G_j]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1026-35.htm

Published on Tuesday, October 26, 2004 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press

Wellstone Was a True Champion of War Heroes
by Laura Billings

Though he was known for his passionate, arm-flapping speaking style, Sen. Paul Wellstone was unusually reserved when he explained his vote against the Iraq war resolution two years ago.

"The United States should unite the world against Saddam, and not allow him to unite forces against us," he said.

Cautious in his rhetoric, he was clearly conscious of what the vote could cost him. The only senator in a tight race for re-election to go against the tide, he told his wife, Sheila, "This could be the end."

As we now know, the end came much sooner, just 10 days before the election, when he and his wife, his daughter, Marcia, and campaign staffers Mary McEvoy, Tom Lapic and Will McLaughlin died when their plane crashed near Eveleth, Minn.

Two years ago this week was a time of such rage and raw emotion that this state has still not fully recovered. And yet, seen from the perspective that time allows, the late senator's concerns about the war, and the people we've sent to fight it, seem remarkably courageous, and even prescient.


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[G_j]

1. kick

:kick::kick::kick:

[Crankie Avalon]

2. He was a great man...

...and it's a disgrace that certain Republicans are blocking his name from being designated for the building.

[G_j]

5. let us just name another after Reagan

there are not enough of those yet..

:cry:

[sweetheart]

3. sounds like a great man

I never knew of him, but a close close friend of mine was killed
in a light aircraft crash in 2002, and it is easly for me to feel
with anyone who lost a great man in a light aircraft incident.
Casualties happen in civil war, and lets be honest, about what
this election represents in a nutshell. We must win and make
Paul Wellstone's victorious in death.

[G_j]

6. I pledge to make a victory toast to Paul

:toast: :loveya:

[cheezus]

4. champion of the working man

and he understood that there is no finer worker than the american soldier.