John Moltz

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Soldier who lost feet optimistic about future, but puzzles over war

"The other day I went to my son's house, and he crawled to the window and yelled that he couldn't get to the door till he put his legs on," his father, also John Fernandez, says. "Things like this break my heart. I keep asking myself, `For what?'"

Says Mary Fernandez, John's mother: "The people who say this war is OK don't see the dead and wounded. They don't know how it affects their families."

And the House spends the day debating the Orwellian resolution 557, which is designed to convince the U.S. people that, ooh, golly, yes, we're so much safer after Saddam Hussein's removal. So much safer that a regime that was effectively contained is out of power.

But I think people are smart enough to realize that Saddam Hussein was never going to be able to effectively launch an attack on the U.S. (let alone want to make such a stupid move) that would have taken over 500 lives and lost John Fernandez his feet.