Laura Youngblood’s husband Travis (27) was killed in Iraq in July of 2005 while serving in the U.S. Navy. Tavis Youngblood left behind one small child and his eight-months pregnant wife.
Like Cindy Sheehan, Laura is also a Gold Star Mom. Unlike Cindy Sheehan*, Laura continues to support the men and women of the U.S. military.
Cindy’s supporters claim that she has an ultimate authority to speak out against the war, and the right to do so without being disparaged — after all, her son made the ultimate sacrafice, and she’s a grieving mother.
You would think that Cindy and her supporters would feel the same way about a young widow such as Luara Youngblood. You would also be wrong.
Sheehan: “I am starting to lose a little compassion for them. I know they have been as brainwashed as the rest of America, but they know the pain and heartache and they should not wish it on another. However, I still feel their pain so acutely and pray for these “continue the murder and mayhem” moms to see the light.”
Murder and Mayhem moms???
ALa at Blonde Sagacity has this to say about Sheehan:
So, to all of you that have felt bad about bashing Cindy (since her son was killed in Iraq) –consider yourself absolved. She has no trouble bashing others that have lost husbands, sons and daughters in Iraq.
Personally, I’ve never felt any guilt about bashing Cindy Sheehan. I knew that she was standing on her dead son’s grave for her own selfish, anti-American agenda from the moment I saw her camped out in Crawford.
Also, unlike Cindy Sheehan, Laura’s husband has a headstone marking his grave. Casey Sheehan still lies in an unmarked grave, as Cindy has been too “busy” to buy her son a headstone, despite the near half-million dollars she’s received because of his death.
Is this woman really dealing with the death of a son? No marker on the grave indicates to me she is not. I think she’s in for a big head crash a few years from now when her cause celeb is over. That’s the kindest thing I can say about her.
Cindy Sheehan refuses to talk to War Widow
While Cindy Shenanigan’s 15 minutes continue to tick by agonizingly slow, her personal bubble of protection and showcasing via the media and hollywood is in danger of being burst. Her nemesis comes in the form of Laura Youngblood. Mrs. Youngblood is …
For those that did not attend Crawford Easter week:
It was an enlightening confrontation with Cindy Sheehan and her daughter. Of course the news media did a spin on the coverage! She had far less attending her cause. Then Laura and myself organized an effort to confront her. The important message Laura and I were sending: to support our troops.
Not like the news media portrayed us as Bush supporters! That Laura and I, believe not only to support our troops. We have to come together for the children and the spouse’s left behind from a fallen soldier. And to be supportive to our wounded soldiers.
Cindy Sheehan has always been to the left. Laura and I are comfortable with her viewpoint. However, she is using her son’s name, an American hero, as a pawn.
Allowing those in Hollywood to back her and give her endless funds. Cindy Sheehan does not speak for every American, our wounded, our fallen, our families and every American. Laura’s husband Travis, my son Sgt. Gregory Wahl, and all our fallen are heroes. And have not died in vain! Sad that Cindy Sheehan disrespected her son’s honor.
She travels worldwide proclaiming President Bush misled the country. Just not the case.
If anyone has been misleading the country, it’s been Cindy Sheehan. Casey enlisted in the Army. She was on the Big Idea with Donny Duetsch, where she claimed the Army promised her son would never go to Iraq. Anyone in the military knows that to be false. Heck, we have Generals down to the lowest enlisted in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I’m the father of fallen soldier us army Sgt. Gregory Wahl, KIA in Balad, Iraq 05-03-04 — exactly, two years ago.
Laura and I feel Cindy Sheehan lost. As long as she uses her son’s name, disrespecting him and all our fallen heroes. We will be confronting her. We use our own money, not Hollywood’s. We need the support of all Americans, veteran groups, and others.
Understand we do not get media attention knocking every time we speak against Cindy Sheehan. Guess the media is afraid! After all the media can only report the negative stories from Afghanistan and Iraq. Sad considering the media in Iraq have our troops guarding them. So Cindy Sheehan and the news media will continue to bark loudly.
I promise we will not go away. Please make a donation to Operation Troop Box, support our soldiers in harms way.
Gatlinburg Tennessee on the 4th of July is the annual Midnight parade and fireworks display. We are enetering a float to the parade. THEME: Honor Our Fallen and Support Our Troops.
Anyone knowing a fallen family. Please update them to this event. I can be contacted at leonard-wahl@hotmail.com.
Iwill be attending the event along with otherfamilies of fallen heros. I have left each soldier a message on http://www.fallenheroesmemroial.com from Tennessee. I will be doing the same with other surrounding states. We need everyone’ support to bring as many fallen families together! Also asking for any donations to cover the expense of the float. Any funds left over will be given to the wounded soldiers and or other organizations helpful to our soldiers and families.
Cindy Sheehan, it amazes me you’re afraid to debate. One with a mouth such as yours, and you’re silent to a challenge to debate. Come on now you are a Hollywood princess now!
The idea place to debate is Crawford, Texas! You can’t be afraid after all you enjoy the media attention. I’m positive the media would eat this up: a live debate from across the President’s ranch.
Seriously, Al Gore and John Kerry debated President George Walker Bush. Or are you like Howard Dean: all mouth and no action?
Many relatives of our fallen soldiers disagree with you. Relatives who are willing to debate you. Amazing that a wife of a fallen hero Laura Youngblood and her five year old son Hunter. Caught you so off guard. Hunter stood his ground against “mature†adults like you Cindy Sheehan. The very person that told his mother live on The Big Idea with Donny Duetsch — while she 8 months pregnant with baby Emma: “Your children are fatherless”!
You want everyone to be understanding of you while you are so cold-hearted to another fallen family.
The difference between Laura and you is that she feels your loss and pain. She is a caring mother with heart. And her children are not “fatherlessâ€, as you put it!
We do disagree with you using your son’s name in vain! Doing so, you disrespect Casey and all our soldiers. You had been nothing more then a housewife prior to losing your son. And I do feel your loss and pain!
You are using your son’s name for blood money. Allowing those Michael Moore’s, Jane Fonda’s, and George Soros’s of the world to use your son’s name in vain! Of course you will disagree, you are that type of close-minded person. The point is why? Are you afraid to debate?
We have an excellent person to challenge you. You known who he is? He’s already requested a debate with you in Crawford, Texas. You had no nerve to answer him personally. Except to send an aide telling him no! While you hide in a huge tent across from the President’s ranch.
Another interesting viewpoint: Why are we only against the Iraq war and not with Afghanistan, too! Cindy Sheehan accept the challenge if you really believe you have something to say. May 19th you will be in Washington D.C. doing a book signing. Shame on you — more blood money! If you’re not, then give all the money from the book to organizations supporting our soldiers. After all, you claim you do even with your viewpoint against the war in Iraq. That in itself would give you some credit!
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I just saw Laura Youngbloods commericial on Fox News. I cannot believe she is naive enough to think that 9-11 and the Iraqi war are somehow related. Perhaps she needs to read the Downing Street Memos, and the PNAC. There was no terrorism in Iraq before we attacked a sovereign nation. We have killed over 400000 Iraqis according to the Lancet. Her husband was killed for money and oil. The reason we have more contractors than soldiers in Iraq speaks for itself.
Don’t you dare call me “anti-american” because I refuse to
be brainwashed by a bumbling idiot and his cronies. I don’t
even want to refer to him by name, as he is worth that little.
I view anyone who takes this clown seriously, as having a
serious mental flaw themselves. Start reading about PNAC,
and the paranoid jews, and when you analyze this long enough,
you will realize that they have dragged the American public
into their personal battle with the Muslims, and it didn’t hurt
to have a few side benefits – such as the oil – as well. Don’t worry-
all this nonsense will come to an end sooner or later, when the
planet becomes increasingly uninhabitable from the damage
resulting from the money/power people’s goal of “economic growth” at any cost….look how long the public’s been brainwashed from all sides to waste and consume and waste and consume, because the goal is always to outdo those around you, instead of counting blessings. Hypocrites all indeed. Any
conservative that supports neo-cons, is the furthest from a
true conservative that can be. Just wait until China starts calling
in the debt !! These bozos have sold the entire future of this
country down the pike, and obviously and unfortunately, the average US IQ of about 95, has sadly led to an impenatrable ignorance. Arguments originating from the likes of Youngblood
are completely hollow, and non-sensical, and further prove the
point that the alterior motives and policies of these clowns are
just blindly and ignoratly rubber stamped. Even if their motives
were true and blue, all the current war is serving to do, is to influence more and more people in the muslim world towards
extemism; people who would otherwise be non-politically motivated, if it were not for the outrageous behavior of the
religious monarchy which the US has been subverted to. WAKE the HELL UP !!