During this past weekend, we have heard time and time again so many quotes from this administration or about the administration.

 

Despite not holding any important positions of influence or wealth, we - just being ordinary citizens and parents of one who answered his country's call to arms and then subsequently became a veteran - would like to take a moment to respond to some of these quotes.

 

From Secretary Rumsfeld, we heard to back off and relax. We wanted to scream back to him that it is too late for us and especially for our son to relax and back off. For you see, due to their lack of planning and unrealistic expectations, our son - along with so many others - is dead. We would think that one holding such a position would truly understand, be sympathetic and empathetic - as well as being politically wise - yet again and again shows themselves to be so truly insensitive and uncaring. How can one of such hardness for our own be of the government of the people, for the people and by the people?

 

We then heard him speak of mythology - We were stunned! The masters of the war mythology had spinned so many tales of WMD and links to terror and 9/11 - which all proved to be false; then these same storytellers ask us to believe that they were totally misled and given wrong information - this country which has the best funded spy and satellite system in the world and work in concert with the countries which have the most developed and refined information gathering systems on this planet.

 

For us who have lost all - it is so difficult to even consider - never mind believe!

 

Then the commentator stated that Rumsfeld's importance is enhanced due to the fact that he knows where all the bodies are buried in the Pentagon. Well, we do know that he does not know where our son is buried - nor chances are that he would even care ... due to the fact that no one from the upper levels of this administration has attended a funeral of anyone on the formal acknowledged list of casualties listed in the media. Why would any of them pay attention to those who are uncounted, unrecognized and unacknowledged?

 

Then, finally, a Congresswoman stated that we should be so beyond looking at and questioning  the rationale for the basic premises for the war. She added that she had had members of her family who were in the military to buttress her opinions and positions. We would first have to ask why would she ever want anyone in this country to compromise one of the greatest strengths of being a citizen of this great country ... not only to question but demand answers from those elected to govern - for those elected are answerable to those who have elected them. The second reason and this is the most frightening - would she not want the people of this nation to learn from the mistakes which led this country to such a tragic and deadly decision.

 

We state that these are some of the issues which bother us tremendously but these issues are not limited to just these. The emphasis to " stay the course" has led to the deaths of so many as well as to hurtle so many families into the depths of Hell while they struggle to keep their loved ones alive. Some will access the VA healthcare system only to discover the horrible truth of how broken the system is -due to the fact that once the soldier serves his/her purpose - the person becomes disposable ... and with the VA's perception of immunity - regretfully a callous and insensitive attitude has been fostered which will lead to so much pain.

 

We hold all of our loved ones as heroes and as those who have suffered so much as such special people deserving of recognition.

 

Regretfully, through the showing of " The Ground Truth ", people may begin to understand the true horrors and terrors of that which we call War. If people everywhere could truly understand all that is said and shared, then we would pray that we would never expose our children or anyone else to these horrors ever again. With Love and Peace,

 

The Father and Mother of Cpl. Jeffrey Michael Lucey