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What Gordon Gentle would be saying if he could speak from the Grave

msmithy | 22.11.2005 22:36 | Anti-militarism

Soldier demands mother keeps mum over war





Soldier demands mother keeps mum over war
By Shirley English






A MOTHER has abandoned her campaign to get British troops home from Iraq in time for Christmas after being told to shut up by her embarrassed son.

Yvonne Gordon, 42, from Aberdeen, spoke out against the “illegal” war at a rally this month, just weeks after her 19-year-old son was deployed to Iraq. But now her son, Sammy Stewart, a private serving with the Gordon Highlanders in Basra, has asked her to keep quiet because she is embarrassing him. Yesterday Ms Gordon said she had agreed to stop active campaigning after talking to her son over the internet.

“Sammy is a good boy, he’s doing his job and the Highlanders is a good regiment. My view is different from Sammy’s, because I’m his Mum sitting back home and I worry,” she said. “I’m happier now I’ve spoken with him and I don’t want to see him picked out from the other soldiers because of my views. I’m going to stop campaigning for his sake.”

Ms Gordon encouraged her son to join up when he was 17. He was deployed to Iraq in October on his first tour of duty and is not due home until next May. A spokesman for the Gordon Highlanders said that Ms Gordon’s behaviour had been “frustrating” for her son.

“Although he understands that she is naturally worried about the dangers of his job, he wishes she would see things as he does,” Lieutenant-Colonel James Hopkinson, his commanding officer, said. “Highlander Stewart is doing a very good job in Iraq. Although the negative press coverage is all rather embarrassing for him, he knows what he is out here for and has the strength of character to just get on with it.”

Ms Gordon said she would continue to support Rose Gentle, whose son Gordon, 19, was killed in Basra in June 2004, although she would not be actively campaigning.



msmithy


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Aww mum, I'm a big boy now, please let me die for Blair, your soooo embarassing?

23.11.2005 03:08

pointless post

Mediums for war and genocide, gaining legitimacy from voices beyond the grave


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23.11.2005 16:21

A SON has been blown to pieces by an Improvised Explosive Device in Iraq in time for Christmas our smug and manipulative tabloid copy is happy to report.

The young Scottish soldier said that he hoped his dead body would be disinterred and used as a political football by the cynical right wing media subservient to the business interests which started the conflict. He had recently asked his mother to stop campaigning for peace.

"Being in the army is just like being in the boy scouts" the young soldier didn't comment, due to the ongoing censorship of the conflict, "Except when your mother tries to oppose the genocidal insanity of it, your squad sergeant threatens to kill you like the boys executed at Deepcut. If mum stops embarassing me, it might increase my chances of survival. Hopefully I'll be home for Christmas before I get my Killed In Action Badge"

(C) AP, Urgent release to all sick IndyMedia Trolls

anon


Voluntary Military ?

27.11.2005 00:09

If I am not mistaken we have an all voluntary military (and no stupid comments pleases about economic conscripts). What the left continually seems to be doing with our soldiers is insulting their intelligence. They all chose to join and yes somewhere in the small print it might have said that you may have to acutally fight a way and you dont get to choose which ones you like or dislike. You what you seem to be saying is that these brave young men are too stupid to see the light as your gifted stay at home in your comfortable state supported existence lefties have ? How incredibly condiscending and insulting can you be ?

D dodger


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