Re: Home from Iraq - Yea it's OT!

Posted by Britt on October 05, 2004 at 07:22:15 from (207.69.137.21):

In Reply to: Home from Iraq - Yea it's OT! posted by Dug on October 03, 2004 at 19:31:32:

Last Saturday we buried a 24 year old Marine. He was my wife's relative. He was scheduled to return home on the tenth of October. This was his second tour.
This is a tremendous loss to his family. But he was PROUD to serve and he BELIEVED in what we are doing in Iraq. He had told his parents that the news media was not giving a true picture of what was happening over there.
His family would be extremely upset if anyone pointed to his death as meaningless.
In the days following the announcement, several news organizations contacted the family in hopes of getting an anit-war, anti-Bush statement from them. When told that they believed in what their son had been doing, some of media hung up on the family. I believe that the proper name for this type of people is GHOULS. They call on a family in thier grief and then try and lead them into a statement that is not true. Then when they don't get the response that they want, they just hang up, or worse, tell the family that their son/daughter was lost for no good reason. It makes my blood boil.
The likes of Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and thier ilk are shameful.
The death of ANY of our troops is a huge loss. Unfortunately, we have to pay a price to maintain our freedom. Part of that price is the lives of some our sons and daughters.
During World War Two, we were loosing more service people in a week than we have lost in Iraq and Afganistan all together.
If we had kept a count that was repeated daily on the national news, I believe that we would be either speaking German or Japanese today, if our parents had been allowed to live.
Sorry for the long post. We MUST unite in this country. Every anti-war, anti-Bush statement in the press just gives encouragment to the people who would destroy us.
Our troops deserve our total support.

God Bless Them

Britt

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