Here's a good story about a war widow who will never get the same media attention as Cindy Sheehan...

After deciding she'd had enough of critics, a war widow from New York state flew to Texas to confront activist Cindy Sheehan, who had launched her third protest near President Bush's residence in Crawford.

Pregnant at the time, Laura Youngblood lost her husband Travis July 21 to wounds from an improvised explosive device outside Fallujah, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported.

Before dying, however, Travis Youngblood sent a letter home asking his wife to take care of his fellow soldiers in Iraq.

Laura Youngblood arrived in Waco from South Hempstead, N.Y., Wednesday.

"I heard that Cindy was coming down again to protest, and I had enough," Youngblood said.
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...Youngblood crashed a Sheehan-led protest Thursday on the steps of the McLennan County Courthouse, holding her husband's photo and yelling to the group to applaud the troops.

"Show their support, that's all I ask," Youngblood said.

Yesterday, she headlined a rally outside a store in Crawford.

"These people are dying every day," Youngblood said of military personnel in Iraq, "and … some of them feel like they're going to come back and it's going to be another like Vietnam where people aren't going to appreciate everything they've done. And that's sad."

"My husband and I both served for this country, my husband died for this country," said Youngblood, according to the Waco paper.

This was not their first encounter, either. While on MSNBC last year, Sheehan told Youngblood that her baby would be "fatherless for a lie."

Thursday, Youngblood repeated her response to Sheehan, clutching a photo of her husband.

"My children will never be fatherless," she declared.

Youngblood said her husband fought because he believed war was inevitable after the 1991 Desert Storm conflict left Saddam in power, and he didn't want his son to fight it again.

Hunter, 5, said his father "died for America."

I'm sure Sheehan will continue to be the one to make headlines... But then again, Sheehan is the one who is craving the attention.

HAT TIP: Chicagoray.

Posted by Matt at April 17, 2006 10:02 AM

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cindy needs to get the heck out of our country if she is so insistant on bashing our PRESIDENT ! Let her go to the caves with osama been hidin. Our country does not deserve her continual bashing. GO AWAY CINDY!

Posted by: JoAnna Cary at April 17, 2006 10:41 AM

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It seems the answer given to silence those who oppose the current administration's policies is always the same - 'move to another country'. Shouldn't there be room for dissent in a democracy? Why is Bush promoting democracy in the middle east, while at the same time, the right to free speech at home is eroding?

What is happening to the U.S. right now is too sad for words.

Posted by: Canadian Observer at April 17, 2006 02:23 PM

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Cindy WHO?

Posted by: dbogdan at April 17, 2006 10:06 PM

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'move to another country'.

CO-this has been a limp wristed response to dissent since the Viet Nam war. I remember bumper stickers that read- 'America, Love it or Leave It' Not only bumper stickers, but on the hard hats of union workers.

They eventually came around to see the war in 'Nam was a huge mistake. I think todays intolerants will also see the errors in their way. Hopefully it will be before our Chicken Hawk In Chief can do anymore harm.

Posted by: Ash at April 18, 2006 02:28 PM

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sorry about the extra posts.

Posted by: Ash at April 18, 2006 03:01 PM

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