GARLAND, Texas - An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: "My daddy died this year in Iraq." While gripping, it wasn’t true — and now the girl may lose her tickets after her mom acknowledged to contest organizers it was all a lie. The girl won a makeover that included a blonde Hannah Montana wig, as well as the grand prize: airfare for four to Albany, N.Y., and four tickets to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert on Jan. 9. The mother had told company officials that the girl’s father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said. "We did the essay and that’s what we did to win," Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. "We did whatever we could do to win."    Contest organizers are reviewing the matter, and is considering taking away the girl’s tickets.

The contest organizers are considering taking away the girl’s tickets?   Umm, not only should her tickets be taken away but the mother should be shipped off to Iraq on the next plane out of the United States and used as a rag doll for all the soldiers stationed there.   Listen ordinarily I’d say there is nothing wrong with lying about a death in the family to further personal gain.   It’s kind of the American Way.  Like the mother said, you play to win the game.   But you got to do it Johnny Fairplay style.  You got to make up a lie that doesn’t really effect anybody but yourself.  Say that your dad got caught in quick sand and suffocated to death or that he got eaten by an alligator while playing golf.   But whatever you do you can’t say he died in Iraq.   It’s just a total slap in the face to all soldiers who are serving our country.    I mean maybe I could let it slide if this was for four tickets to Jimmy Buffett in Anguilla, but Hannah Montana in Albany?   Just totally unacceptable.