I wish your family hadn't made that sacrifice.

They should never be allowed to get away with such hateful self-absorption.

Families have never been thanked enough for what happened. Republicans do America disservice to repeat this travesty over and over.

If it makes you feel better and I'm sure it doesn't, Ann and Mitt are both sociopaths and unless their children are also sociopaths, they lived through hell as children. I was a child of a sociopath and I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. They aren't human and have no access to human emotions. They fake but not always so well.

If there is anything that happened in your life that made your heart sing with joy, know that neither Ann nor Mitt have ever felt that. It's a small thing, I know.

everytime they attempt to compare mitts time in france to servicing the country, I really want to pluck them in the center of there forehead

like petition some agency or the President or something to get the names of your brother and the other 79 airmen on the Wall? Their names should absolutely be up on that Wall with all the others lost to that senseless war. I don't care where the plane crashed - even if it crashed at takeoff on U.S. soil - their names should be on that Wall. They were being deployed to Vietnam - in my opinion and I'm sure we'll get a lot of other DU'ers here agreeing - their deaths were a direct result of that war.

but nothing can be done. Thanks...I really think it's unfair. My Mother could not be honored as a Gold Star Mother, either.

and what excuse are they giving you for not putting the names up? This is just not right. Have you gone to the press with this? Have you ever tried to get any allies in the media to go to bat for these 80 airmen and make this a big issue?

Who else are they denying putting on the Wall?

and recognize people who died because of issues related to the Vietnam War...my brother was honored about 7 years ago and they put their names in some book that is supposed to be available at the Wall (but it's not). I really don't know who makes the decision. Jack Murtha was our Congressman (I loved him) and we contacted him but he said nothing could be done. I think it's a darn shame. Thank you for asking, I appreciate it.

They seem to be specializing in military affairs.

Seriously.

We'd need more details but I would write if the op asks.

All her boys and Mitt have "served", just like people in the military!

When discussing her chickenhawk husband and sons, ann romney said the following: "He was serving his mission. My five sons have also served their mission. None served in the military. None served in the military, but I do have one son that feels that he’s giving back to his country in a significant way where he is now a doctor, and he is taking care of veterans. So we find different ways of serving, and my five boys and my husband did serve missions, and did not serve in the military." She then added; “I sent them away boys, and they came back men.” Well guess what ann? The 80 young men that were referred to in the original post went away as boys, and never came home. Maybe, if they had gone to France to serve their churches instead of flying into a war started by wealthy men like your husband, then their families would not have to had dealt with their losses.

Gawd that women is deplorable.

They dont have any clue what veterans and families go thru

and thank you for including families - I am a veteran, but I was also a "military brat" - most people have no idea what it is like to constantly move as a child, constantly changing schools. It can be very tough!

How could a family ever recover from something like that? That's heartbreaking.

I hope that some of the advice given here works. Your story should be part of a national conversation. My cousin was killed before he had been in Nam two hours. His name is on the wall. Your brother's name should be also. He sure wasn't flying to Paris.

I can only imagine that this is something from which you don't ever recover. Then when you see some chickenhawk that advocated for the war and then flew off to France to ride his bike through the countryside, it can only add insult to injury.

That family is incorrigible.

No family recovered from that war - fugg the Rmoneys.

I can't even begin to imagine the grief.

they should be on the wall.

I'm so sorry for your family and suggest DU start a petition on Change.Org to get their names on the wall. It is shameful that they were denied the honor. None would not have been in the Philippines had they not been en-route to Vietnam.

Ann Romney's tone deafness is breathtaking to say the least. She is the epitome of "let them eat cake". Bravo to Whoppi to pursuing the questioning.