Mom's love & body armor

Very interesting, in light of the recently leaked secret Pentagon study on the inadequacy of body armor.
And pathetic.

New York Daily News
Michael Daly

When other mothers were starting their Christmas shopping, Elaine Brower was online at www.diamondbacktactical.com 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.

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.

Elaine Brower is considerably less supportive of the war than her son, and at first she balked at purchasing what was surely the government's responsibility to provide to everyone headed into harm's way. James countered with an argument no mother could contest. "I said, 'No way,'" Elaine Brower recalled.
"He said, 'Well, I'll just be dead.'"


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

If he has reenlisted after they was the Bush Admin has failed to support the troops, I for one do not feel sorry for him...besides if he reenlisted he received substantial bonus...so why is he putting the arm on his mom?