We only need sixteen votes to end this war. President Bush stubbornly refuses to bring our troops home, flouting the will of the American people. Now the power is in Congress' hands. Will they stand by Bush or the American people, the great majority of whom oppose this war? Ty C., a supporter from Huntsville, Alabama is one of these people. Like Barack, he opposed the war from the beginning and strongly opposes it now.
Ty C., a chef from Huntsville, Alabama, spent a lot of his youth traveling around the world because his father was in the military. “I’ve lived in Germany, Guam, England, Korea, Japan, other places,” says Ty. “And that experience has just cemented the idea for me that we are only as good as we behave. It’s so much easier to make friends with someone when you try to help somebody rather than when you try to knock down the door with a baseball bat. I just believe that we’re here to help each other.”Ty’s grandmother, who he says “was a very devout Christian and a very wise person” also strongly influenced his ideas on foreign policy.
She used to tell me that if someone wronged you, you don’t pick up a stick whack someone on the head with it. If you felt slighted by someone, you did what you could do to make things work out for everybody. I was raised in that old Southern tradition which is not to just turn the cheek all the time but to be generally gracious.
People where I’m from are very proud to be American. I’m very proud to be American. Southerners have always been the first people to send our kids off to war. That’s just what we do. But now people are starting to realize something is wrong here. You’re starting to see it in the churches; people are starting to ask questions. We wanna know: ‘what are we doing?’ We Southerners have a long history of being stubborn-minded but once we asking questions, we apply that same stubbornness to getting answers. We wanna know why our kids are getting shot.
Ty donated ten dollars to the campaign. “I’m 35 years old and this is the first time I’ve donated,” says Ty. “As somebody who works hard for a living, I can tell you I’ve had about all I can take of this. I know it sounds corny but it’s time for a change.”“People in the South,” says Ty, “want somebody to stand up.”
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