Americans, In Support of Our Country

Iraq Forum

Sometimes it's easy for us to forget how personal the issues impacting our nation can be for everyday families just like yours.

Joseph Williams helped remind us all of the heroic and brave sacrifices of our men and women serving in the war on terrorism. He knows how much they put on the line each day - because his son, Michael, died in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Can you imagine how much greater this loss is for him when he has to deal with people like Cindy Sheehan who continuously speak out against our nation and our troops?

Please - read his message below, and forward it on to your friends. We want every person in the nation to read Joseph William's message to the American people.



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JOSEPH WILLIAMS
Vacaville, California



My son, U.S. Marine Michael Jason Williams, lost his life in the war against terrorism. I share that in common with Cindy Sheehan. I also hail from Cindy Sheehan's hometown - Vacaville, California.

But that's where the similarities end.

I have chosen to speak up and speak out IN SUPPORT of our country and the fight against Islamic terrorism. This will be a long and difficult battle. The enemy is fierce, and they have been allowed to enhance their abilities and develop new techniques to kill and maim for over 20 years now, with no nation really making it a priority to stop them - until now.

I teamed up with Move America Forward last year to go to Crawford, Texas as part of the "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" tour. I lent my voice to this radio ad urging support for the men and women of the U.S. military during the holiday season. Listen to the clip here. As a proud American who put in 5 1/2 years of service to the United States Navy (including serving during the Vietnam War) I feel I must stand with those who serve today.

I have also joined Move America Forward on their national bus tour that culminated in a big pro-troop rally in Washington, D.C. I demanded that Cindy Sheehan stop using my son's name in her advertising against the war. Ms. Sheehan refused to honor my request, disgracing both my son and me.

This past week I heard news reports that Cindy Sheehan was being considered for a Nobel Peace Prize. Can you believe that? The woman who has called terrorists "freedom fighters" and who attacks our troops, our military and our Commander in Chief was considered for a Nobel Prize.

Instead of a Nobel Prize, how about we all rally together and help send a message to the world that Cindy Sheehan doesn't speak for us!?! There's a really easy way for us to do this right now.

A brand new book that counters the negativity of Cindy Sheehan is about to come out. It tells the stories of Gold Star Families, including myself, who love and support our military men and women and who are committed to the fight against terrorism.

This great new book is called, "American Mourning," and is written by Melanie Morgan (Chairman of Move America Forward, host on KSFO radio, columnist at WorldNetDaily) and Catherine Moy of the Vacaville Reporter. I consider Melanie to be a dear friend (here is a picture of the 2 of us together at the big 9/11 Commemorative Event) and I am hoping this new book is a huge success.

We can send this book to the top of the Bestsellers List and make it the talk of the nation. We can get the OTHER side of the story told. My goodness, Cindy Sheehan has had her story told for almost 2 years, can't we Gold Star Families who SUPPORT what our children did get just 2 weeks or 2 months to have our voices heard?

Maybe you have someone serving in the military who would appreciate knowing that Americans do honor and care for them. Or maybe you have a liberal, anti-war friend who can read "American Mourning" and get their much-needed education on the real Cindy Sheehan.

Thank you for supporting the honorable men and women of our Armed Forces. With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming soon it will become a bit lonely for some of them, being so far away from family and friends.

Please keep our military personnel in your thoughts and prayers and support them and their missions. They'll do the rest, and they're damn good at their jobs!


Respectfully Yours,


Joseph Williams


http://www.amazon.com/American-Mour...ie=UTF8&s=books

What a crybaby.

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This mguy is an a$$hole plain and simple he does not care about troops he cares about his book getting sold plain and simple it almost sounds like some of it is politically driven.

If this guy stands with the troops as he claims why is he not listening to the ones that are saying Iraq is a quagmire and that we need a new direction why is not lobbying congress for the troops if he is standing by them

This idea that Americans have that if you are agianst the war you are aginst the troops is stupid you can be both anti war and pro army there are lots of anti war groups in the UK but they realise bad mouthing our troops is not going to gain any friends in the UK, if the right in America would get it through thier thick skulls that you can support the troops and opose the war this stupid back and forth political/money making scam that Miss Sheenan and this guy are playing would stop and we might actually have an adult debate about why this has Iraq mission has been a spectacular failure and we might even get some ideas on how to solve it.

Yeah, he's patting himself on the back, slamming that Sheehan chick then peddles his book. A lot of honor in that alright.

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The ridiculous conceit of the pro-war rally is that Americans (or whomever - Aussie soldiers are there too) are not supporting America if they oppose the war.

You could argue that the true patriots are those following their conscience against where their government is taking them, that they don't like the path their country is being taken, and that they're willing to stand up - and hence be shouted down -

Cue sport selling his book by getting into Cindy Sheehan for un-patriotism.

Blindly supporting the president is not patriotism. It's being a sheep. Especially when the President is such a useless goof.