CAROLYN QUINN AGAIN--Her Letter to Her Senators
Senators BARACK OBAMA and DICK DURBIN of Illinois at earlier event on vetran's issues.
CAROLYN QUINN has done it again! This is the letter she sent to Senators DICK DURBIN and BARACK OBAMA in support of the all night session to discuss the LEVIN-REED AMENDMENT forcing Senate REPUBLICANS to defend the indefensible.
Dear Senators:
You are making me immensely proud today. Hang in there! We cannot allow the Republican Caucus to morph into The Incredible Pit of an obstacle course, because if we do, the rest of the Senate, and indeed the rest of the country, will be mired in the muck right along with them.
I am a teacher in McHenry County who has participated in school sponsored "lock-downs" where we have great groups of students stay overnight in the gymnasium to have Reading Marathons. Sometimes we organize for them to do 24-hour runs outside on the track. These are always huge events,and I know well how that kind of work can be both grueling and rewarding.
I am also the mom of a Navy Man recently returned from "Operation Enduring Freedom." We want our troops home now - not because we are tired of fighting, although we are. Our sense of desperation comes because it is not possible to EVER have a sense of having won this war. That could only happen in the situation where we were doing an honorable deed, which in this case we certainly are not. What we have is this: honorable warriors are fighting as honorably as they can while the commander in chief wages this war in a tapestry of dishonor. The original warp was established on lies, deceptions and a perverted sense of profit. Woven across that was established a pattern of further dishonor that blankets the very soul of our country. It casts a shadow on the sacrifices made by all our boots on the ground AND our boats in the depths of the ocean.
Never did I imagine the day would come when the Red Cross would identify my country as the perpetrators of torture. I'm sorry, but there is no honor in the torture chamber. This has festered far too long, and we have got to put a stop to the entire fiasco.
Slam on the brakes!
Don't give up! Don't lose heart! Don't miss your families and feel lonely in the Senate Chambers tonight! We are with you, we are behind you, we are proud of you. We are honored to be represented by you tonight.
Carolyn Quinn
Crystal Lake, IL