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On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:07:20 -0700, "Calif Bill"
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Lu Powell wrote:
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Vic Smith wrote:
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:33:16 -0400, "it's me, Jim" "j i
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Copied from another newsgroup. I thought some of you would be
interested.
Please watch this all the way through. It's a moving as any video
I've
ever seen. You'll most likely need a handkerchief.
*Killed in action the week before, the body of Sergeant First Class
John C. Beale was returned to Falcon Field in Peachtree City,
Georgia,
just south of Atlanta, on June 11, 2009. The Henry County Police
Department escorted the procession to the funeral home in McDonough,
Georgia. A simple notice in local papers indicated the road route to
be taken and the approximate time.
Nowadays one can be led to believe that America no longer respects
honor and no longer honors sacrifice outside of the military. Be it
known that there are many places in this land where people still
recognize the courage and impact of total self-sacrifice. _Georgia_
remains one of those graceful places. The link below is a short
travelogue (about 12 minutes) of that day's remarkable and painful
journey. _But only watch this if you wish to have some of your faith
in people restored. Please share widely. Well worth watching.
Click on link to see video http://blip.tv/play/AYGJ5h6YgmE**
A great thing to see. Made me feel good and sad all at once.
--Vic
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It's too bad that in January 2001, a simple-minded man took over the
U.S. presidency and later that year initiated a series of actions that
resulted in the unnecessary deaths of 4,000 Americans, tens of
thousands
or even hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis, and serious
injuries to hundreds of thousands more. If only Americans had been
smart
enough to elect the brighter man running in 2000, eh?
What a horrendous mess Bush left behind for Obama.
Too bad those Georgians weren't assembling to protest Bush's idiotic,
misguided, and misdirected war. All they have to show for it now is
yet
another dead American with a family.
Just had to spoil a moving tribute with your loony left bull****, eh
Hairy?
There's nothing "loony left" about pointing out the stupidity of a war
of
convenience, ****-for-brains.
A better tribute is to welcome home returning *live* soldiers and
assuring
them they never again will be sent off to fight a war of convenience.
Ever fish the basin adjacent to the St. Augustine Airport? Great place
for
reds and sometimes tarpon.
Then where is the railing against Clinton for involving us in a Bosnian
War?
We are still there.
Iraq=NFL
Bosnia=PBA
There was a humane reason to be in Bosnia. Iraq? Oil for Cheney.
There was? The Serbs and Albanians have been killing each other for at
least 600 years. The Albanian's are the Columbians of Europe (drug
dealers), and it was a European problem. What interest did we have in it?
Same time a million people reduction in population was going on in Ruwanda.
Why not hamane stuff there?