It has been learned recently that Barack Obama was asked by the family of Sgt Ryan David Jopek, KIA by a roadside bomb in Iraq, to stop wearing their son's bracelet. The request came when it was apparent that he wore it for political reasons.
Politicizing the war is pathetically unacceptable. Politicizing the casualties of war is unconscionable. Politicizing the war dead for political gain and political power is beyond contempt.
From
Newsbusters:
The Father of Sergeant Ryan David Jopek asked Barack Obama to stop wearing his son's bracelet. Obama ignored the father.
Brian Jopek, the father of the fallen hero, appeared on a radio talk show in Wisconsin and stated that requests by the family to Barack Obama to cease and desist go unanswered.
Barack can't even remember the Sergeant's name.
[UPDATE] (by request and rightfully so)
It is the opinion of this author that Barack Obama needs to immediately honor the request of the family and stop wearing their son's bracelet. Barack does the name of Sgt Jopek dishonor in using his death as a political football and his very insensitivity to the family is unacceptable.
As a DAV, I find Barack's insincere rhetoric a blight on this nation's good name. Then again, Obama is the consummate fraud so we really shouldn't expect anything less from such a shallow community "disorganizer".
Barack Obama - you are a disgrace to the very uniform that you lied about not wearing. As you "contemplated" joining the military to "serve honorably" but didn't think that there was enough going on in the world to justify joining the rank and file of the United States Armed Services, there were guys like myself in Iran trying to rescue the American hostages. Some we got out and some we could not.
If one is to wear a fallen's bracelet, the least one can do is remember the man's name without having to look at the bracelet to remember.
