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.”

[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 ...

[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 !