Watts
WattsNews.net is for the Watts’ extended family. Here is some interesting info about Watts.
States with the most Watts families by Census year:
1880
- Alabama (1189 families)
- Illinois (1043)
- New York (1029)
- Georgia (1009)
- Missouri (993)
- Kentucky (968)
- Virginia (922)
- Mississippi (913)
- South Carolina (861)
- Maryland (820)
1900
- Alabama (1472)
- Georgia (1307)
- Mississippi (1302)
- Missouri (1250)
- Illinois (1245)
- Texas (1243)
- Kentucky (1121)
- Pennsylvania (1082)
- New York (1039)
- South Carolina (1016)
1930
- Texas (2235)
- North Carolina (2101)
- Alabama (2063)
- Illinois (1819)
- Mississippi (1678)
- Georgia (1635)
- New York (1581)
- South Carolina (1573)
- Pennsylvania (1559)
- Ohio (1397)
Officer refuses to go to Iraq
Why would people rally support for the Army officer that wrote the following: “I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to watch families torn apart, while the President tells us to ‘stay the course.’ I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression.
“I wanted to be there for my fellow troops. But the best way was not to help drop artillery and cause more death and destruction. It is to help oppose this war and end it so that all soldiers can come home.”
According to a news report on a site run by KOMO TV in Seattle, WA, Lt. Ehren Watada plans to desert rather than be sent to Iraq. The article also says he is not against war, only this war. A soldier, especially an officer, cannot pick and choose what war to fight or what orders to follow.
The USA has an all volunteer military. If you cannot and will not fight to defend your country after signing up to do so, do not enlist or accept a commission in the first place. It is that simple. This officer appears to be using moral indignation to hide behind.
The penalty for desertion is, and should be, very stiff. I hope the Army gives him a long prison sentence if he follows through on his cowardly threat.
