Army Post Road

     The issue may seem moot to some by this point but regardless of that I’m going to weigh in: the recently pulled Internet video produced by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was nothing short of pure disgrace and heartless political opportunism. The thought that the coffins of my slain brothers- and sisters-in-arms were used in a political ad is the largest smack in the face to all of our countries servicemembers and veterans and their families imaginable. Consider the reaction if someone were to use the pictures and video of President Kennedy’s coffin on Air Force One or the riderless horse before his funeral caisson. What kind of reaction would come from the Democrats and the Kennedy family if someone, especially a Republican, were to try to make political hay from those somber images of American history? Even when the ad was pulled after protests by a large number of Congressional Republicans and two Democrats (kudos to those two for their honesty in the matter of denouncing the commercial), the DCCC issued no apology, only saying they were going in a different direction with different ads. That sickens me; they unscrupulously try to profit from the concrete symbolism of the flag-draped coffins of these fallen heroes and they don’t even apologize for it? They’re truly lucky none of the coffins were identifiable because every family of these deceased servicemembers ought to be raising such a hellstorm for these Democrats that the forthcoming election should only be a formality of their dismissal.