I object to these groups who say they're mourning for our soldiers -- people they didn't even know. There's a difference between honoring the dead and counting bodies for your own political purposes.

We don't believe Cindy Sheehan supports the troops. What she's doing and what she's saying is bad for troops' morale.

We don't believe Cindy Sheehan supports the troops. What she's doing and what she's saying is bad for troops' moral.

People aren't just saying Mark was a good guy because they're in mourning. When people tell you he was a great guy, they really mean it.

And there were following Him a great multitude of the people, and of women who were mourning and lamenting Him. But Jesus turning to them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.' Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us.' and to the hills, 'Cover us.' For if they do these things in the green tree, what will happen in the dry? Luke 23: 27-32

It encourages the soldiers to build their team and to get out there and find people that they would like to serve with, that they would like to go to war with. It compensates them for their time.