Posted on 11/20/2005 4:34:58 PM PST by saquin
A MOTHER has abandoned her campaign to get British troops home from Iraq in time for Christmas after being told to shut up by her embarrassed son.
Yvonne Gordon, 42, from Aberdeen, spoke out against the “illegal” war at a rally this month, just weeks after her 19-year-old son was deployed to Iraq. But now her son, Sammy Stewart, a private serving with the Gordon Highlanders in Basra, has asked her to keep quiet because she is embarrassing him. Yesterday Ms Gordon said she had agreed to stop active campaigning after talking to her son over the internet.
“Sammy is a good boy, he’s doing his job and the Highlanders is a good regiment. My view is different from Sammy’s, because I’m his Mum sitting back home and I worry,” she said. “I’m happier now I’ve spoken with him and I don’t want to see him picked out from the other soldiers because of my views. I’m going to stop campaigning for his sake.”
Ms Gordon encouraged her son to join up when he was 17. He was deployed to Iraq in October on his first tour of duty and is not due home until next May. A spokesman for the Gordon Highlanders said that Ms Gordon’s behaviour had been “frustrating” for her son.
“Although he understands that she is naturally worried about the dangers of his job, he wishes she would see things as he does,” Lieutenant-Colonel James Hopkinson, his commanding officer, said. “Highlander Stewart is doing a very good job in Iraq. Although the negative press coverage is all rather embarrassing for him, he knows what he is out here for and has the strength of character to just get on with it.”
Ms Gordon said she would continue to support Rose Gentle, whose son Gordon, 19, was killed in Basra in June 2004, although she would not be actively campaigning.
Wow - lots of parallels here to our Cindy Sheehan.
Except he is still alive and can tell her. No such luck with Cindy.
I think that Casey already spoke for himself - by virtue of the fact that he not only enlisted, he re-enlisted - despite the war that was going on. His mother won't see that though.
All of those in the Service, that love our country, should consider something similar. It's as important as a will, and a current 93.
/john
Then what the !@#$ is she complaining about! Did she not understand what being a soldier means?
Here's to the Gordon Highlanders! (Highland MacKay ancestry here...)
Ms Gordon encouraged her son to join up when he was 17.
He's 19 now. So he was 17 two years ago, in 2003, when the Iraq was already going on. So she encouraged him to enlist while there was a likelihood he'd be sent to a war and now that he has been sent she's protesting and embarrassing him?
This is true.
Way to go Sammy.
Then what the !@#$ is she complaining about!
You beat me to it. :-) I was composing the same point while you were posting yours.
"STFU, Mum!"
Well now Mum, you might look to the generations of fine women in the UK who also sent their sons to war.
They carried on, and kept a STIFF UPPER LIP.
There is nothing I despise more than a mother who betrays her soldier this way- of all people she must never let him down.
Somebody notivy Cindy.....
Enough Gordons already!
You took the words right out of my mouth. This article, however, says that the soldier's mother was embarrassing him. She (and Sheehan) are only embarrassing themselves, and showing just how far the apple can fall from the tree.
She probably encouraged him to enlist knowing she needed some kind of credibility when she began her anti-war antics. When you need credibility (and MSM attention), what's better than having a family member serving in Iraq.
We "Volunteer" for the military. We see it as a "Profession".
People like Sheehan and Gordon have no leg to stand on.
They don’t even speak for their own kids in reality. These women represent a view point most professional soldiers see as feeble. In Sheehan’s case it’s worse; she just does not care and is in reality smearing the reputation of her own son who’s probably turning in his grave at the words of his mother.
Red6
Very good idea, especially now!
Saquin, Ms. Sheehan should be completely and utterly ashamed of herself using of her son's life for her own ends. Too bad Casey didn't do what JRandomFreeper did!
Well, at least she stopped when her son told her to. That's the next best thing to having behaved well in the first place.
Bless you, JRF! ...and from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, you have no idea how much we admire and appreciate you and all our brave troops!!!
Thank you for supporting my airmen.
/john
I bet she didn't give back her share of the SGLI, did she?
Would you please call Cindy and tell her to STFU?
Many thanks.
LVM
With a name like Yvonne, her first instinct is probably to surrender.
I told my mum the same thing: if Uncle Sam calls me up, you are to STFU.
Give this woman credit for being willing to heed the words of one who knows far more about Iraq than does she.
My thoughts exactly.
I am amazed and humbled by the modest sincerity of your statement.
Y'all make us proud!
May God bless and keep you always safe...you and your airmen!!!
Their parents would rather DIE, than blacken their names after the kind of sacrifice Casey Sheehan made.
It would hurt of course, but we'd be VERy proud of them!
Godspeed
My prayers go out for every mother's son that has to be 'over there'. And every mother's daughter, as well.
My ex and I would never allow our children's possible sacrifice to be abused by the media. And most of my family wouldn't. But my letter to my lawyer lays it out for any die-hard family liberals. Stop. Don't. Guido's watching.....
/john
I’m going to stop campaigning for his sake.Too bad Cindy doesn't understand the meaning of her son's re-enlistment and say these same words.
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