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Catherine Moy
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“A child should not die before his parents.”

I have heard those words many times from mourning parents. Watching my parents suffer their unbearable loss when my little brother died was painful beyond words.

During the war against radical Muslim Jihadists, heroes have laid down their lives for freedom in this country. The parents and families of these American heroes forever carry a hole in their soul that aches.

Yet some beings don’t seem to care about this pain. Groups like Code Pink stage die-ins at which they write fallen troops’ names on their bodies and lie down as if they are dead. This kind of demonstration rips open the wounded souls of Gold Star families.

Cindy Sheehan, whose son gave his life for America’s safety on April 4, 2004, erected crosses during her protest in Crawford, Texas, and posted names of fallen soldiers on them. Parents begged her to remove them, but she did not until Move America Forward forced her to do so by driving to Crawford to face off with Sheehan.

Now a heartless man is profiting by making anti-war T-shirts that include the names of fallen troops on it. And he has made the hateful shirts without the permission of the troops’ families.

Robin and Michael Read of Greeneville, Tenn., are suing Dan Frazier of Flagstaff because their son Spc. Brandon Michael Read’s name is on the T-shirt with the words “Bush Lied – They died.”

Spc. Read, 21, died for his country after a roadside bomb exploded while serving in Iraq on Sept. 6, 2004.

The Associated Press has a complete report here.

The suit seeks $10 million in compensatory and punitive damages. It also asks that Frazier be permanently barred from using Brandon Read’s name.

Frazier’s free-speech rights ended when he used Brandon Read’s name for profit and any reasonable person would consider Frazier’s actions outrageous, said the lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Tennessee.

I read through the names that can be seen in the Associated Press photo above and noticed the name of a soldier whose family support the War on Terror. I have alerted the families.

I hope that the Reads prevail and take every stinking penny from Frazier. He should live penniless for his crimes against humanity. His shameless profiteering on others’ grief should earn him a front seat on the bus to Hell.

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