Sunday, January 20, 2008

Remember Me Video (Views: Over 22,434,392)

This is a GREAT video. Learned this from an article in the Columbus Dispatch after a story came out from FOXNEWS about 15 year-old Lizzie Palmer's video. This video is inspiring, sobering, sad and very necessary. CNN anchor John Roberts interviewed Lizzie. She has ties to the military and has friends and family serving in Iraq. All of our soldiers, in fact, need the country's support that we are to support the troops, even if you don't support the war. Many Americans tend to remember the mistakes and politics that led us there, rather than the faces of the men and women who serve and defend us. Lizzie Palmer, a young lady from Columbus, Ohio, felt compelled to do her part to remind people of those faces.

Rep. Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania's 8th Congressional District, the first Iraq war veteran to serve in Congress, got choked up when saw the video. He said with this quote:
"The attention span of the American public is so small, these men and women are heroes, and they need a thank you, they need to know that they are missed and loved." Later: "I want to meet this young lady and thank her myself, I think what she did is important."



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2 comments:

Norma said...

I had seen this some time ago, but had forgotten it. I went to her website and looked at some of her other videos. Very lovely. Some of the anti-war-over-the-edge folks hate this and denigrate it and her, but I think she's pretty fair about the message, and it isn't pro-war. Just pro-people. Reminding us all to do the right thing.

whimsical brainpan said...

Very powerful. I got a little choked up.