Mom's love & body armor (Marine son's Xmas Request)

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/381008p-323532c.html

When other mothers were starting their Christmas shopping, Elaine Brower was online buying $3,000 worth of body armor for the son who will be heading for Iraq with the Marines next month. "I said to him, 'I don't understand why they don't give you this stuff,'" Elaine Brower recalled yesterday.

James Brower had been among the first Marines into Afghanistan after 9/11. His mother thought her nightmare was over when he returned home intact and left the Corps for the NYPD.

But her son is nothing if not patriotic, and he remained in the reserves. The day came this summer when he announced he would be heading back into combat.

Since his last hitch, individual Marines in Iraq had learned at a terrible cost the shortcomings of their government-issued body armor. James Brower presented his mother with a list of items his comrades recommended he obtain online from Diamondback Tactical of Arizona.

who else wil?
This is BULLSHIT! Stop the slaughter on both sides, for crying out loud!

:grr:

on this travesty from the msm--hoping "it will make a noise like a hoop and roll away"

"pioneer" or one of *'s "base"? that might explain things.

Even after the publicity generated by the brave soldier who stood up to Rummy... How long ago was that?