Commemorative Hummer

I love it!!!!
Wow a big Wow,

Now that is my kind of Protesting,God Bless her, I would be driving that hummer right across the Country, now if only there where an army of these hummers, crossing America the message would be out there right if Georgies face.

I was going to write about Labor Day or perhaps police preparations for APEC in Sydney, when I received these photos and story. Even though I suspect we might have some political disagreements, this is a Mom's hummer, and belongs to Carla Comfort, who loved and misses her son. (story and more photos below the fold)

It depicts her son, 20-year-old Lance Cpl. John M. Holmason, and nine other Marines with whom he was killed by an IED blast in Fallujah, Iraq, in December. It's her way to pay homage and let people know they were doing their jobs honorably. Her son had only been deployed for five months when Marines knocked at her door of her Michigan home to let her know he'd been killed. She came up with the idea of the rolling memorial after she saw a Vietnam War memorial on a car when she attended his funeral with her two other sons. She purchased the vehicle in January and took it to AirbrushGuy & Co. In Benton , Ark. where artist Robert Powell went to work on it. It took 250 hours and the AirbrushGuy did it for free, as long as the paint (which cost $3000) was supplied.
After having it painted in Arkansas, she drove it to Camp Pendleton and took it on to Portland, where she has moved from Michigan. She will continue to drive it, people will forward emails of the photos around the world, and it will make a statement. I like political art, but not Hummers or war, and would have preferred an energy-efficient car and an antiwar message. That said, I appreciate that she is making her statement and that it is a very personal statement from choice of vehicle to the scenes depicted (which include a heaven scene and a design based on a tatoo her son had). People can take their own interpretation and she will meet all sorts of people along the way who may support the troops but not necessarily the war. I am glad to pass it on, but if anything, it galvanizes me even more to work to stop the war. (photos courtesy of Harrcopter, N Everett)
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