Bresident Bush has made it his practice to meet with family members of sevice personnel killed in Iraq when possible. He has even met with Cindy Sheehan -- though she seems tohave forgotten her words of praise for the President at the time.

Here is an account of one such meeting.

For about 20 minutes Tuesday, the MacKenzie family met privately with President Bush as he offered sympathy and listened to stories about Pfc. Tyler MacKenzie, a 20-year-old solider killed in Iraq earlier this month by a roadside bomb.

"We cried, and I had to pull out some Kleenex and give it to everyone else," Tyler's grandmother Mary MacKenzie said.

"I had to give some to the president, too, because he didn't have any."

The meeting was arranged through the office of U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave. Tyler MacKenzie, who graduated from Greeley West High, was the first Weld County resident killed in the war.

Both David and Julie MacKenzie, along with grandparents Emmett and Mary MacKenzie, saw Bush speak at the Brown Palace Hotel before the Secret Service moved them to a quiet room to meet with the president.

Emmett MacKenzie, a 75-year-old Korean War veteran, said Bush reassured them that there would be no pullout of troops until Iraqis could provide their own security.

"He said we wouldn't quit, and we told him we didn't want to quit until the job was done," Emmett MacKenzie said.

"We want to continue, and we're behind him 100 percent."

Another family for pursuit of the only valid exit strategy -- VICTORY.

Why is it that such families do not get the sort of coverage and respect that one America-hating mama gets?

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