{"id":2311,"date":"2005-08-23T03:17:44","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T10:17:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-08-23T03:17:44","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T10:17:44","slug":"the-politics-of-grief-bushy-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/23\/the-politics-of-grief-bushy-style\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Grief, Bushy style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is really a pathetic story.&nbsp; First, <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2005_08_21_digbysblog_archive.html#112475743038828583\">from Digby:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/sheehan_qualls.jpg\" title=\"Sheehan_qualls\" alt=\"Sheehan_qualls\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><i>Cindy Sheehan, right, hugs President<br \/>\nBush supporter Gary Qualls of Temple, Texas after the two met at her<br \/>\ncamp near Crawford, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2005. Qualls&#8217; son Marine<br \/>\nLCPL. Louis W. Qualls was killed in the battle of Fallujah Nov. 14,<br \/>\n2004. Qualls answered an invitation from Sheehan to meet with pro-Bush<br \/>\nparents that lost children in Iraq. Qualls was the only parent that<br \/>\ncame.<\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/I><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOver the weekend, as the camp prepared for the arrival of the counter-demonstrators, a huge diesel pickup truck rumbled into camp with its nose menacingly pointed towards the tents. It sat for a while, and everyone waited to see what would happen. Ann Wright, the main organizer of camp activities, finally approached the truck and met the driver. He was a father, Wright discovered, and his son had been killed in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>He did not agree with this protest, he said, but wanted to know if his son\u2019s name was on one of the crosses in the Arlington West cemetery. Ann Wright invited the man to walk the rows of crosses and find his son\u2019s name. They found it. Ann and the man from the truck sat down in front of the cross, wrapped their arms around each other, and wept. Later, the man shared a beer with Cindy Sheehan and told her he loved her.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reachm.com\/amstreet\/archives\/2005\/08\/22\/cold-qualls-two\/\">Rest Of The Story<\/a> here.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is really a pathetic story.&nbsp; First, from Digby: Cindy Sheehan, right, hugs President Bush supporter Gary Qualls of Temple, Texas after the two met at her camp near Crawford, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2005. Qualls&#8217; son Marine LCPL. Louis W. Qualls was killed in the battle of Fallujah Nov. 14, 2004. Qualls answered an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}