Professor who was critic of Iraq war mourns for soldier son killed by bomb

Source: Associated Press

The Associated PressPublished: May 16, 2007

Published: May 16, 2007

BOSTON: Andrew Bacevich repeatedly railed against the Iraq war in op-ed columns and interviews, calling it a "catastrophic failure." But the Boston University professor rarely, if ever, said that his son was serving in the conflict.

Friends say he did so to protect Andy Bacevich Jr. and to avoid any question that he was proud of his son's service.

Bacevich, himself a veteran of the Vietnam and Gulf wars, learned this week that his 27-year-old son had been killed by a bomb in Iraq.

Bacevich's critiques of the war have been measured, with the professor emphasizing that the war's architects are not evil but disastrously mistaken. Now that he has suffered a personal loss, that approach could change, a colleague said.



Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/17/america/NA-GEN-US-War-Critic-Son-Killed.php

i added it to website
here's the son's pic:
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and the dad:

http://www.bu.edu/ir/faculty/bacevich.html

and an article he wrote:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/20/AR2005082000114.html

And Cindy Sheehan's son? And of course Kerry supporter Pat Tillman?

Neocons don't mess around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Michael_Berg_2006.JPG



Michael Berg, a retired teacher and antiwar activist, ran for Congress in the state of Delaware on the Green Party ticket in the 2006 midterm elections. He is most well-known as the father of Nick Berg, one of the first American civilians to be abducted and executed by insurgents in Iraq.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Berg