Family of fallen soldier agrees with president (God Bless these American Patriots alert)

Rome News Tribune ^ | 4-14-04 | Matt Tuck

[flying Elvis]

Although the decision cost them the life of their son, Justin, Joe and Jan Johnson said they still feel that President George W. Bush was right to send U.S. troops into Iraq.

Given the chance, Jan Johnson said, she’d like to personally thank the president. “I think he’d probably like to know that there’s a mom whose son got killed who still supports him,” she said.

Their support came as the Johnsons watched the president’s press conference from the White House on Tuesday night, signaling their agreement with his every response.

Throughout the televised event, Jan Johnson nodded along to the president’s answers. At one point, Bush proclaimed that he doesn’t plan on losing the presidency this November, to which she responded to the television, “Amen.”

“I support (Bush) 100 percent. … To me, we didn’t start this,” Jan Johnson said. “Bush took it out of our country and back to them. Our guys are over there taking care of us here to make sure that doesn’t come back to us.”

Spc. 4th Class Justin Weaver Johnson, 22, was killed in Baghdad this past weekend when a roadside bomb exploded beside his Humvee, in which he was the gunner.

During the press conference, Bush fielded questions about his intentions to go into Iraq and his conviction to stay there until democracy is established, which hit home with the Johnsons.

The loss of Justin and other troops since the war began has been “a necessary evil,” Joe Johnson said. “It has to be done. If we weren’t there, it would be a more dangerous place.”

“If we don’t stay there, it’s going to turn into another hot spot, and my son’s death will turn into nothing,” Jan Jonhson said, tears running down her cheeks. “We need to stay until it’s over.”

[flying Elvis]

Family's like this are what made America great and beautiful. I am proud to say they are from my hometown.

[xzins]

An amazing acknowledgement from a bereaved family. We should lift them in prayer.

[tiamat]

Thanks!

this is me, doing so.....

[MEG33]

Prayers for the Johnsons..

[Brytani]

Families like this need more media exposure to make up for the Bush-hating from the 9-11 widows.

My prayers go out to this family....

[Cap Huff]

I praise the Lord for the strength that He is giving this family, and I pray that they will have a special sense of His presence in their time of grief. The Lord is Gracious.

[xzins]

“I support (Bush) 100 percent. … To me, we didn’t start this,” Jan Johnson said. “Bush took it out of our country and back to them. Our guys are over there taking care of us here to make sure that doesn’t come back to us.”

I guarantee you, that if we take the above away from this family that we pour salt into the open wounds of their grief.

The ultimate meaning of their child's death was to protect his country, his friends, and his family.

What message does John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and the Democrats send them by undermining the legitimacy of our cause for going to war -- that we were protecting our nation from attack? It is clear, the demonrat message tells them that their child's DEATH was in vain.

Last night the president said exactly that. He is exceptionally perceptive. He said last night at this link, "One of the things that's very important," he said, "is to never allow our youngsters to die in vain. And I made that pledge to their parents. Withdrawing from the battlefield of Iraq would be just that, and it's not going to happen under my watch." ,

[MEG33]

I agree,xzins.Jim Angle said that statement to the families was his most important point proving his determination to stay the course in Iraq.

I said on another thread that the dems over the line criticism about Iraq and its"failures", does not "nevertheless" show support for the troops.It undermines their sacrifice and morale.

I believe it encourages the enemy and costs lives.

[xzins]

M33, I totally agree with you. They undermine our troops with their rhetoric about "supporting the troops but opposing the war." It's sheer sophistry that is only rational as a soundbite and not as a real position.

I will readily agree that the government got to the point in late Vietnam where its actions demonstrated it did not have the will to win the war in Vietnam. But, that was something that came about over a series of years. The death-knell for Vietnam was the decision during Johnson's years that opposed attacking across borders into Laos and Cambodia and opposed bombing the north. They took the war out of the hands of generals and put it in the hands of politicians are war protesters. At that point, the nation signaled that it had no intention of winning in Vietnam.

But that came about over a period of years.

We have been in Iraq merely one year and we have total control of the country except for this low-intensity conflict with baathist remnants and islamofascist terrorists.

There is no way that any fair-minded person can fault the meaning of the war on Iraq given (1) that we've been engaged in it for just one year, (2) that we are clearly trying to win it, and (3) that the reason for the war is definitely to protect the security of our own people and nation.

[boxerblues]

“I support (Bush) 100 percent. … To me, we didn’t start this,” Jan Johnson said. “Bush took it out of our country and back to them. Our guys are over there taking care of us here to make sure that doesn’t come back to us.”

Jan Johnson gets it, our guys are taking take of us. We should be very proud of them, not fail them.

[TrueBeliever9]

“Bush took it out of our country and back to them. Our guys are over there taking care of us here to make sure that doesn’t come back to us.”

This is a fact that the US Military and their family truly understands! It is so simple that it seems to go right over the heads of the democrats!

May the LORD touch every wife, child, mother and father of these special men who gave their lives to protect America from another 9/11! I bless them everyday!

[TrueBeliever9]

Thought you would like to read this testimony by parents of a fallen hero!

[Happy2BMe]

"At one point, Bush proclaimed that he doesn’t plan on losing the presidency this November, to which she responded to the television, “Amen.”

Bush Says He Will Stake Re-Election on Iraq

[chgomac]

Prayers for the family of this fallen hero. We fight in Ramallah so we don't have to fight in Rome.....in Baghdad so Boise and Boston and Bremerton are not war zones. Our Military has taken the war to the enemy. God bless them.

[Happy2BMe]

Thanks for the ping, TB9!

“If we don’t stay there, it’s going to turn into another hot spot, and my son’s death will turn into nothing,” Jan Jonhson said, tears running down her cheeks. “We need to stay until it’s over.”

Imagine. You have just recieved word that your beloved son has perished at the hands of Islam. John Kerry is calling your son's military leader a liar, an opportunist, that he had foreknowledge of the Islamic attack(s) of 9/11, and that he (George Bush) has prolonged the war to remain in office.

Only to realize and say, "If we don’t stay there, it’s going to turn into another hot spot, and my son’s death will turn into nothing . ."

To all you lurking Democrats: You are are being EXPOSED. From J-FK to Ted Kennedy to Hillary Clinton and on down your miserable chain of corruption - YOU ARE BEING EXPOSED.

[rabidralph]

More like amazing chutzpah for a reporter to seek out a grieving family and then ask to observe them as they watch the address.

[xzins]

The media never ceases to amaze me.

But this one heard the truth.

“If we don’t stay there, it’s going to turn into another hot spot, and my son’s death will turn into nothing,” Jan Jonhson said, tears running down her cheeks. “We need to stay until it’s over.”

[Vigilantcitizen]

Family's like this are what made America great and beautiful.

What a sefless, brave, and honorable family.

I am proud to say they are from my hometown.

My better half is from the Rome area, with relatives scattered about west Rome, Armuchee, and Porterdale. Those people are the salt of the earth.

I'm proud to say I live in the same state as these people.

[FreedomPoster]

>>The media never ceases to amaze me.

Channel 2 had cameras in the room with a young widow, and her mother-in-law, who were trashing Bush. Monica was the newsreader.

The ghoulishness of the lamestream media knows no bounds.

[BibChr]

Nice to be reading about this in the Washington Post. Oh, not, not the Post.... The NY Times? LA Times? CNN?

No, of course not. The Never-Heard-of-You Press.

Are Christians allowed to hate the mainstream media?

Dan

[xzins]

I think so, but I don't have the greek on it down real well.

One of those hidden verses: God hateth a lying press.

[OldSmaj]

...amazing chutzpah for a reporter to seek out a grieving family...

And then the dumb bastard can't even get the kids rank correct.

All he wants to do is sell newspapers; he could care less about the human aspect of the story.

Vulture.

[dansangel]

What a sefless, brave, and honorable family.

Amen. Thank you for the ping (((VC)))

[TrueBeliever9]

To all you lurking Democrats: You are are being EXPOSED. From J-FK to Ted Kennedy to Hillary Clinton and on down your miserable chain of corruption - YOU ARE BEING EXPOSED.

The democrats are about one thing: FEAR

The democrats media is about one thing: FEAR

Nader is working hand-in-glove with Kerry sowing the seeds of FEAR!

God has not given AMERICA a spirit of fear but of POWER, LOVE and a SOUND MIND! Spread The Word!

[TrueBeliever9]

PING for #24 meant to include you

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

There were two more on Larry King live too. One young man who just didn't get it. But a wife and her father in law who did. And the sister of one of the pilots whose plan was flown into the WTC who gets it.

God Bless them all. I've never been so proud in my life.

True patriots! Their loved ones are the epitome the word HERO! Their loved ones left behind are some of the bravest people I've seen. They made us all proud and they too are serving us well. God Bless them for "THEIR" service to our country!

I go to bed feeling safer and so proud after hearing them speak. May God comfort and bless them in their grief and in their lives.

[Two-Bits]

Hi, Please take a moment and either call the President or send an email to let him know we, the American people back him. Also, if you could just tell one person to do the same and ask them to tell another, than God willing, we will flood the switchboard with calls and faxes like they have never seem. This is one way we can take it direct to the President and it can not be misled by the media or stupid polls.....
Please call or email and God bless:
Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414 FAX: 202-456-2461 E-Mail President George W. Bush: president@whitehouse.gov Vice President Richard Cheney: vice.president@whitehouse.gov

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The loss of Justin and other troops since the war began has been “a necessary evil,” Joe Johnson said. “It has to be done. If we weren’t there, it would be a more dangerous place.”

“If we don’t stay there, it’s going to turn into another hot spot, and my son’s death will turn into nothing,” Jan Jonhson said, tears running down her cheeks. “We need to stay until it’s over.”

 

Spc. 4th Class Justin Johnson

 

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ROME, Ga. -- Jan Johnson got home from church Sunday to find a U.S. Army chaplain and sergeant in her driveway. They brought news that her youngest son, Justin, was Rome's first casualty from the war in Iraq.
 
Spc. 4th Class Justin Johnson, 22, was killed when a roadside bomb detonated as his Humvee passed in Baghdad, Jan Johnson said. She did not know what day Justin was killed, and the Army had not confirmed the casualty Monday.
 
Justin Johnson, based with the 1st Cavalry in Fort Hood, Texas, was a gunner on the Humvee. His mother said he was killed in Sadar City, in Baghdad. He had been in Iraq a week. Link

[nkycincinnatikid]

Our continuing freedom is owed to the humble, small town and rural, less indoctrinated by "higher learning, substantially white, Christians of the red states. The contempt in which they are held by nomenclatura and apparatchik elites of the big cities and coasts is the greatest tribute any class of our society could recieve.

[Coop]

An amazing story. God bless this family.

[Jewels1091]

I would love to send them a card....Prayers for them.

[Bahbah]

"Bush took it out of our country and back to them. Our guys are over there taking care of us here to make sure that doesn’t come back to us.”

I am so grateful for families like this. Prayers for and thanks to them.

[BibChr]

Well, more seriously than my previous, I think it does go with "love not the world." The press is the world, in its tumultuous, baseless, valueless, anti-God/anti-godliness viciousness rapaciousness. One mustn't hate the individuals, but what they are as a mass, and what animates them, is I think what Christians are to hate.

In Bill Clinton, for instance, you see someone who loves the world, someone whose values and actions were shaped with a constant eye on the media, whom he lived to please. I have many areas in which I wish President Bush were to the right of where he is, but in that sense he does not love the world. He walks the course he believes is right, the media's love be damned.

Dan

[Carolinamom]

Bill Clinton loves HIMSELF. This self-absorbed sociopath loves the world as it reflects upon HIM.

[Liberty Valance]

Bump!

[BibChr]

Sure seems so. If he wore the T-shirt that says "It's all about ME," it'd be one of his few sincere moments.

Dan

[MeekOneGOP]

Amen ...

[ping jockey]

Families like this need our support and prayers. They do not need to be political footballs no matter what side of the issue they are on. there can be no doubt that the ones that have fallen were beleivers or they would not have been there.

[MeekOneGOP]

To all you lurking Democrats: You are are being EXPOSED. From J-FK to Ted Kennedy to Hillary Clinton and on down your miserable chain of corruption - YOU ARE BEING EXPOSED.

Amen to all that !

I sent fat teddy TWO emails last week concerning his IGNORANT and CLASS WARFARE comments likening Iraq to VietNam. Chappaquiddick teddy has NO CLASS !

Source of pic

Senator Teddy, wearing his controversial neck brace, leaves St. Vincent's
Church with his wife, Joan, after the funeral Mass for Mary Jo Kopechne.

[MeekOneGOP]

I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a drink today !

[MeekOneGOP]

To all you lurking Democrats: You are are being EXPOSED. From J-FK to Ted Kennedy to Hillary Clinton and on down your miserable chain of corruption - YOU ARE BEING EXPOSED.

Again, Amen !

Here's hitlery ...

Hillary to Troops: Support for War Fading
(Click here or on pic)

Thank you, Tom Ridge !:

[opus86]

We should lift them in prayer.

Absolutely. Here's a similar situation from Indiana.

http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/136156-9902-009.html

[N8VTXNinWV]

Ping....

BTTT

[Paved Paradise]

I wish we could write these people a letter c/o your local newspaper and thank them for their sacrifice and their patriotism.

[krunkygirl]

This grieving family, with the loss of their son so recent, are an amazing portrait in strength and character.
God bless them and their son, Justin.

If you have the chance, I hope you will assure them that they have my thanks and, if it's not too presumptive, that of a grateful nation.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

God bless this family. Freedom is not free. My family will never forget the sacrifices these families have made for our freedom.

Rest in peace dear Justin Weaver Johnson. I am heartbroken to know of this loss, and this family's pain.

[blackie]

Prayers for our fallen hero and his family ~ Bump!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[xzins]

Because he's a Christian and we knew he loved the Lord," Pam Hallal said, "we knew he respected President Bush and wanted to fight for our country and the freedom of others. "We knew the Lord would protect him unless he had a better purpose."

Another pray American to pray for.

Opus, you should consider posting the article you linked me to as a separate thread in honor of the young man.

[xzins]

Because he's a Christian and we knew he loved the Lord," Pam Hallal said, "we knew he respected President Bush and wanted to fight for our country and the freedom of others. "We knew the Lord would protect him unless he had a better purpose."

Another brave young American to pray for.

Opus, you should consider posting the article you linked me to as a separate thread in honor of the young man.

[onyx]

Family's like this are what made America great and beautiful. I am proud to say they are from my hometown.




Exactly right.
Fabulous post.
May God bless them.