Military Families Speak Out http://mfso.org/ Military Families Speak Out advocates ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by bringing U.S. troops home now, and caring for veterans once they get here. http://mfso.org/article.php?id=489 Colonel Scott may be doing good work, but you must be aware that your headline and the tone of the article strikes like a punch in the face to people like me Tue, 17 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=489 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=488 When I first read this I thought it was a joke piece, as I read it again I was sickened to realize it was real. Tue, 17 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=488 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=486 The stress for military families is very real. It is not a "laughing" matter. Mon, 16 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=486 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=478 Having buried my husband's Army son, I assure you there is nothing funny about war. Mon, 16 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=478 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=485 I am a member of MFSO ( military families speak out) And I have to say that this is appalling to me. My only child is on his way right now to Iraq and the Pentagon is telling me to laugh. Sun, 15 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=485 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=484 After reading the article from the USAtoday website, which was cold-heartedly labeled Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh, a terrifying fear for the well-being of our country overtook my soul. Sun, 15 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=484 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=483 Asking us, the family members, to waddle like a penguin in order to "laugh away our stress", goes beyond insult. It is obscene! Sun, 15 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=483 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=482 As the mother of a soldier preparing to deploy in the next several weeks, I find this article highlighting the "Cheerman of the Board" quite distasteful. War is no laughing matter. Sun, 15 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=482 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=481 So the answer to post traumatic stress is to TAKE A WALK!! Sat, 14 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=481 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=480 My husband died last year, I'm terribly disabled with multiple sclerosis, and have been making arrangements to move near my son's base Sat, 14 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=480 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=479 I find this program and the pride with which it is offered an outrageous insult to me and my children, to my husband and to the service he and his fellow military give up to this nation. Sat, 14 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=479 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=477 The best way to improve the mental health of our soldiers and their families is to bring our troops home now. This would be far more therapeutic than laughing like goofballs. Sat, 14 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=477 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=476 In response to the 1/13/06 article "Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh" I am a wife of a New York Army National Guard soldier, my husband just returned this past fall from a year long tour of duty in Iraq. Though, "laughing" may be considered "support" by those in the Pentagon, let me tell you what we really need, and do not get! Sat, 14 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=476 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=475 LAUGHTER ! Did we read this correctly ... LAUGHTER ? Fri, 13 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=475 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=474 I am writing in reply to the January13th article titled "Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh. Go ahead and laugh? While our loved ones are in harms way, still without proper armor, proper food, in a war that is an illegal, immoral and unjust? Laugh while our loved ones are dying for nothing? Fri, 13 Jan 2006 http://mfso.org/article.php?id=474