Great-Grandmother Being Deployed to Iraq

<< LAWTON, Okla. - A 72-year-old great-grandmother is preparing for deployment to the war zone in Iraq (news - web sites) and will become one of the oldest Department of Defense (news - web sites) civilian workers in the war zone.

"I volunteered," said Lena Haddix of Lawton, who has five children, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. "I wanted to do something for the country, because I was always left behind taking care of the children."

Haddix was a military wife from 1950 until 1979, and has worked at the Fort Sill Post Exchange, or PX, since 1977.

"I've been a supervisor of every department out there," Haddix said. "I guess I'm the flunky."

The PX is more than just a store for soldiers, she said. It's also a boost to morale, giving soldiers stationed overseas a link to the United States and Haddix said that's why she wants to go to Iraq. >>


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20041124/ap_on_fe_st/grandmother_deployed

What can I say except she volunteered? :eyes:

:wtf:

While I think this war is illegal, immoral, and foolish, I can't criticize those who support it with their own bodies.

she goes to Iraq to help kill Iraqi children?

"for the country"??

sigh

words escape me

from Nov 22nd

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1012556