“I support the war,” says James Brower, a 24-year-old
corporal in the Marine Corps. “I am a marine. You can’t claim the title
without doing the duty.” Corporal Brower served 7 months and 28 days in
Afghanistan, became a New York City police officer and was recently
reactivated. He leaves for Iraq today.
“I have a mission to stop
this war,” says Elaine Brower, a 51-year-old Staten Island government
worker, a peace activist who spends her lunch hours handing out
anti-Iraq war leaflets near City Hall. She is Corporal Brower’s mother.
“My son is in the Marine Corps, and they are sending him to Falluja
this week, and I can’t stop him. He knows that this war is immoral,
illegal and illegitimate, but he will go. He is a patriot.”