Sergeant...um...Jopek's family had asked Obama not to wear the bracelet with their son's name on it.
The soldier's father seems to support the war in Iraq and doesn't want his son's death to be made into a campaign issue. The comments following the post about this differ on whether the mother doesn't want a connection to the military to hurt Obama's campaign or whether she is afraid that strongly insisting he not wear the bracelet could hurt the campaign.
My thoughts are that if he can't remember the young man's name after wearing it on his wrist for several months, he should have known the name on it and if any member of the family asked that it not be used as a campaign prop, that should have been honored.
One last thing about the bracelet. I have a bracelet too. I haven't worn it for over 30 years but I don't need to look at it to remember the name on it. I never knew the soldier (at the time he was listed as MIA) or his family, but my thoughts were with him every day.
Posted by marybeth at September 28, 2008 07:05 PM Politics