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Did Scotty die in vain for a fight that should not have been faught? I think his mother would say so. I know I think so. His mother probably would have called me on my choice of words as well. But she would also be the first to say that Scotty would give everything for the greater good. But don't take my word for it, read the story bleow.
The Charleston WV Gazette - Charleston, West Virginia - August 17, 2005
Mom who lost son in Iraq to lead Boone vigil
By Charles Shumaker,
Barbara Ulbrich closely identifies with the vigil a California mother who lost her military son in Iraq is holding outside President Bush’s Texas ranch more than 1,100 miles away.
From her home in Boone County, Ulbrich too hopes she can someday talk to Bush and explain the pain she lives with after losing her 23-year-old son, Army Pfc. Brian Scott Ulbrich, to a roadside bomb in Baghdad two months ago.
Tonight, she will host a candlelight vigil outside the Boone County Courthouse in Madison at 7:30. She hopes to honor all the military families who have lost someone to the war in Iraq. Promoted by MoveOn.org, vigils like Ulbrich’s will take place simultaneously at hundreds of locations nationwide. Vigils are also scheduled at the Judicial Building in Parkersburg and on the Shepherd University campus in Shepherdstown.
Ulbrich said she understands there are more than 300 people organized to support the troops and spread the anti-war message voiced by Cindy Sheehan outside Bush’s ranch. Sheehan’s son was killed in Iraq in April 2004. She began her protest outside the president’s ranch on Aug. 6 and said she will continue until Bush meets with her and other grieving families.
Ulbrich said she wants to speak with Bush as well. She wants him to know that she has always been against his decision for war, even before her son joined the military in January 2004. With her family and the community’s help, tonight’s vigil will feature a veterans color guard and, she hopes, a performance of her son’s favorite song, “West Virginia Hills.”
“It will be pretty emotional,” Ulbrich said. A composed, yet grieving mom, Ulbrich said she has handled her son’s death while going through a variety of emotions. In private, she cries.
“I’m a wreck,” she said.
But tonight she hopes to send a strong message to Bush.
She still stumbles across memories of her son, known as Scotty, as she walks around her home near the Boone/Logan county line.
There isn’t a room in the family’s home that doesn’t have something in it that brings back pleasant memories. This week she found her son’s childhood Nerf basketball hoop in the guest room.
“I would just like President Bush to know that moms across the nation stand together. Not just moms but families and communities as well. We would love to see our military brought home before any more die. I hope this does send a message.”
Her son was known to drive a Bradley Fighting Vehicle in Iraq but the day he died he was behind the wheel of a smaller Humvee. Outside the vehicle, a bomb exploded and rocked it. He and others exited the vehicle just in time for a second bomb’s explosion to kill Ulbrich and two other soldiers. Like many others, Scotty Ulbrich’s job in Iraq was a dangerous one. He and his unit patrolled the landscape for insurgents.
Shortly after hearing of his death, his mother passed on the story of when he used a bulldozer to plow his unit across a riverbed. In late June, she was attending a memorial service at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo., when someone handed her a photo of her son perched on top of that bulldozer.
Back home, she still speaks of the stunning scene that surrounded her son’s funeral.
People lined the road from his memorial service at Scott High School, his alma mater, to the cemetery several miles away.
“The whole way, I was just ... I’m speechless,” she said. “It was just delightful and inspiring."
This war is a business and those in the know realize certain powerful people and companies are supplying both sides.
PS.. the abq art review site is awesome!