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I only write to this side because the other side does not seem to allow for parents who respect their children as people with rights and lives of their own.

The truth is, most any parent will feel at least somewhat anxious about their child going off to war, but we are not talking about little kids hefting big guns and killing. We are talking about young men and women who have made the decision to fight for their country and are willing to put themselves in harm's way to do so.

Parents have an obligation to teach their children correct principles and nurture them so that they will become confident people who can make their own good choices. If a parent does not trust their grown offspring to make good decisions as adults, this does not say much for that parent's confidence in his or her raising of that child.

In other words, if a parent will not accept the idea that their child can make his or her own decisions, that parent has not successfully parented. That parent has failed and is now demonstrating that they know it.

This does not mean that a parent should be completely hands-off when a child reaches the age of adulthood. Surely a parent can still be involved in conversation and can provide other insights into a decision a child is looking to make. But the fact is that the parent will need to allow the grown offspring to take the steps and make the decisions they want to. Hopefully by the time this person is grown, they will understand that they must suffer consequences of decisions.

Even if that decision is to go to war.

Thus, Cindy Sheehan has shown that she simply had no respect for her son, and never thought of him as a grown man who could make his own decisions. If he is looking down on her now, he is probably whispering, "Respect", but she cannot hear.

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