--here's the link to protest--
--http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/dearabby_form.html
Your response to the mother who was horrified that her children might serve their country, and risk death to do so, shows a lack of respect for the hundreds of thousands who have died for us. Americans are special in two ways. We don't want war, but when compelled to be involved in one, we have answered our nation's call. Suggesting that visiting a VA hospital might clear their thinking assumes it is right-headed to fail to serve the nation in its hour of need. Thank God the men and women in that hospital, and buried in Arlington, and in countless cemetaries across the country, didn't feel the same. Thank God you and selfish mom are a minority. And most of all, thank God for this shining city on a hill, which allows you to freely make a fool of yourself.