I am sitting here fuming, wondering how people can go blithely along their days, while our military are being sent to their deaths in Iraq in ever increasing numbers. Where is the outrage? Where are the letters to the editor?

The day after President Bush's announcement of the "surge," about 25 of us gathered at the corner of Southwest 148th Street and First Avenue South in Burien, holding candles, flags and signs expressing the need to end the war now and bring our troops home. I wish that number had been 225, or 2,500.

Other than one or two drivers who shouted obscenities or support of President Bush, we received a very warm response, with many horns honking, waving and thumbs up. Obviously, there is much opposition to the President's policy, but not much action.

So then, where are you people? Can't you stop shopping and do something important: participate in a protest, call your Senator, call your Congressperson, remind them you are their constituent, respectfully request no more money be appropriated for the war. Tell them it is more important to save the lives of our military and innocent Iraqis than to procrastinate, unwilling to admit we were wrong to start this war. Admitting our mistake is more honorable than allowing our President to send more troops to their death.

I talk to more and more people who say they are against the war. Now, do something other than putting a ribbon on your car (which does little to support the troops, but the company that manufactured the ribbon). The only way we can make this war end is for you, the common people of Burien, to get active. Come on Burien.

Elizabeth Desimone

Burien