[xzins]

I was with a very high profile unit at one of our KY installations, when the problem of the media first surfaced. With no regard whatsoever for the feelings of families and grieving human beings, they would stick their mikes in the faces of weeping loved ones and ask absolutely insensitive, rude questions.

The unit simply banned anyone but family, friends, and unit members. In the years following, I saw other military units go to the same procedure.

It was clearly geared to the needs of the grieving and bereaved. There was plenty of information on the deaths out there that the media could use. They had no need to be at someone's funeral service OTHER than sensationalism.....the last thing a person in grief needs.

Our president knows that if he attends these private, family/unit gatherings that they will become a circus sideshow of media anti-americans besmirching the sacrifice of our best and our bravest while trying to get a grief-stricken loved one to make a mistake on camera or on sound-bite.

He is doing the right thing. He's an outstanding Commander in Chief!

Xzins
Chaplain (Retired) US Army

[50sDad]

There are some 18-year-old kids from my church over there who glowingly wrote our youth leader of the awe of seeing George Bush come to them for dinner. They spoke of the honesty of the man, of the concern, the support for them as he came and fed them dinner, not unlike Christ washing the feet of His followers...in service for their service. Contrast this, I tell my 10-year-old daughter, with Hillary, who made Our Boys and Girls wait an hour for their Thanksgiving dinner while she got her entorage settled, seated and fed. Let them eat cake, indeed!