Pro-War Parents of Fallen Iraq Marine Get Audience w/ bush In Utah

[leftchick]

now this is sad....



Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, right, talks with Amy and Tony Galvez during the American Legion national convention Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006, in Salt Lake City. Their son, Marine Lance Cpl. Adam Galvez, was killed in Iraq recently. The couple are sitting in the front row to hear President Bush address the convention. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_4259012

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When American Legionnaires gathered Sunday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Conference Center to honor fallen service members, Amy and Tony Galvez were seated in the front row. Conservative pundits Tammy Bruce and Bob Lonsberry have written about the Galvez family's tragedy - and steadfast adherence to the Iraq War cause. And when Paul Holton, a Utah Army National Guardsman, decided to stage a "Freedom Rally" to counter Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's protest against President Bush, he found the Galvezes ready to support his efforts.

It's unclear how much the Salt Lake City family's allegiance to the Bush administration's Iraq ideology contributed, but they didn't so much as have to ask for the meeting they had with Rumsfeld, who was in town to speak to the American Legion national convention.

Rumsfeld, upon learning of Adam Galvez's death in Iraq, specifically requested his schedule be moved back a short time so he could meet with the fallen Marine's family in private, an aide said.

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But for Amy Galvez, time with the president is not an entitlement, regardless of the nature of her loss.
"It would just be such an incredible honor," she said earlier this week.

[atreides1]

1. Talk about Munchhausens Disease

This lady has it bad!!!


'But for Amy Galvez, time with the president is not an entitlement, regardless of the nature of her loss. "It would just be such an incredible honor," she said earlier this week.'

[leftchick]

2. totally koolaided

I can not imagine being that far removed from reality as to want to embrace the person responsible for my childs death. AND CALL IT AN HONOR! sick.

[annabanana]

5. She can't face any other possibility than

that her son died for a noble cause.

I will not excoriate her, nor tell her how to heal. I think she has been horribly betrayed, and she may come to see it in time. I would not ask her to recover from two such wounds at the same time.

[gratuitous]

3. I can think of someone else Bush could meet with

Wouldn't even have to go all the way to Utah to see this mother whose son was killed in Iraq, either.

[Cha]

4. Poor disillusioned things. RAH RAH!

GO LIES GO! GO LIES GO! RAH RAH!