"The message in them is not victory, not even survival. It is cut-and-run."
That's the most mis-guided thing I've read all day.
Yellow ribbons do not symbolize "cut and run." Where do you get that from? Yellow ribbons are a sign that a loved one uses to let their far-away loved one know that they are thinking of them, that they support them and that they wish them a safe journey home...WHEN THE JOB IS DONE.
During ODS, we had to warn families NOT to display yellow ribbons on their homes, because it was making them targets for morons like this Cindy woman and her minions. Anti-war mutants would show up at the HOMES of soldiers and harrass their families. Unreal!
If ANYONE has co-opted what a yellow ribbon stands for, it's those pukes. :(
The yellow ribbon has been co-opted to an extent by those who want to cut and run. The liberal Cafepress, even StormFront have yellow ribbon campaigns.
I do remember the yellow ribbons in the 1st Gulf War. If not for them, among other things, we might have taken Baghdad and taken out Saddam before the first attack on the WTC, before Saddam's birthday in 1996, before OKC ... The elder George Bush could read the political winds of public sentiment. He could read both messages the yellow ribbons sent.
Let's finish what we start, let's give all to finish what we have to do -- our duty to future generations.