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Family Of Killed Soldier unwelcome at vigil

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-13 20:05|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The mask drops. Self-haters have no room at the inn for patriots...

Posted by borgboy 2004-09-13 8:44:07 PM|| 2004-09-13 8:44:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 this story illustrates why I no longer have any respect for Bush haters. We would all be better off to drop the word "Bush" and just call them what they are: haters.

Posted by 2B 2004-09-13 8:52:05 PM|| 2004-09-13 8:52:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The family friend's message alleges Drake's mother was "harassed and yelled at, booed and hissed, told her son died for nothing."

Yeah. People of Peace. Amazing how this "peace lovers" always seem to be the most hostile towards everyone who doesn't share their point of view. To harass a mother who just lost her son is beyond words. Losers.

Posted by nada 2004-09-13 8:59:33 PM|| 2004-09-13 8:59:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Standard behavior for peace hypocrites, fucking animals every one. Indulging in this behavior without having to take responsibility for it is the whole reason many of these sadly deficient creatures join the movement in the first place. They aren't for peace, they are for their own egoes and their depraved sense of power. The worst of the bastards are the religious ones, concealing their support for torture and brutality behind a level of self-righteous arrogance and moral absolutism that would shame a Puritan witch-burner.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-13 9:05:16 PM|| 2004-09-13 9:05:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 In Dallas? Wow.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-13 9:07:13 PM|| 2004-09-13 9:07:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't know who's worse, these sadistic hypocrites or the media whores who cover for them. They're all a couple of bad turns away from a mass lamppost party and they're too arrogant to know it.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-13 9:07:26 PM|| 2004-09-13 9:07:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 AC - as they go up, they'll snootily note the use of the "wrong" kind of rope. Snobbish sniping will lose it's allure when the shit hits the fan

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-13 9:24:05 PM|| 2004-09-13 9:24:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 well I for one agree, this is not how Americans should Act, I may be a Southern Backasswards college graduate, but In My State We try to honor those who have fallen, NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCE!!!! Southern Hospitality, Kindness, and devotion to the nation are traits that are being driven out of my culture, and I for one Will not idly stand by while miscreants desecrate the sanctity of dying for ones country, I visit cemetaties a lot in my hobbies and I still get enamored by the graves of our forefathers who died in all the wars, from the Revolution, The War Between the States to the Vietnam war. (have not seen any thing recent) but it still would not matter.... those people died in service to our nation and should never be mocked or mistreated..Nor should thier families.

I only wish there was some way to vindicate the Dead So their sacrifice would not be tarnished by a small group of naysayeers who feel otherwise.. this really irks me and im going to distribute copies of that article to every demicrit that I know, lucky there arent to many in SC
sorry for the long rant but im pissed!

Posted by SCpatriot 2004-09-13 9:29:23 PM|| 2004-09-13 9:29:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 When a friend of mine was killed in Vietnam, his parents had to change their phone number because of the unbelievably vicious crank calls they received from peace scum. One of them even knew details of the condition of the body (mutilated, incomplete) and taunted the guy's mother about it.

I think part of the reason for the abuse and scorn heaped on the late Rachel Corrie was the familiarity many people, especially here, have with the actual tactics and attitudes of the "peace" movement and its degenerate adherents, as opposed to the standard big lies and denialism of their public face.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-13 9:35:40 PM|| 2004-09-13 9:35:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I only wish there was some way to vindicate the Dead So their sacrifice would not be tarnished by a small group of naysayeers who feel otherwise

SC, no need - they don't need the approval of idjits like those discussed above. They made sacrifices these pinheads couldn't comprehend for causes they believed in, in their day. Retroactive revisionism isn't worth the spit used in saying it.

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-13 9:36:06 PM|| 2004-09-13 9:36:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 These protestors should have received the Apache "vehicle swarm" treatment - I'd munch a hotdog watching them bleed to death.

This brings to mind one of my favorite quotes, from John Stuart Mill:

" War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

Amen.

I am not a Texan. The Texans I have known would not put up with such crap. Here is a link to how Texans I have known would honor a fallen soldier
(link function is not working):

http://members.accessus.net/~tmcdonld/lighthse/Texas.htm

Posted by Lone Ranger 2004-09-13 9:59:59 PM|| 2004-09-13 9:59:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 LR
IIRC, the Book of Lists once rated Mill as the most intelligent person who ever lived. This was based on an analysis by some expert or other that put a high premium on intellectual achievements at an early age (Mill had mastered Latin and calculus by the time he was 6 years old).

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-13 10:22:09 PM|| 2004-09-13 10:22:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 This type of crap is why I agree whole-heartedly with the policy of not releasing pictures of military caskets in transportation. Rumsfeld fielded a question on the policy at the National Press Club last Friday. Here is an excerpt that deals with the issue:

DONNELLY: This questioner writes, "Aren't you ashamed of your policy forbidding the flag-draped coffins of our dead soldiers to be shown returning home, when their families have clearly said that they do want their loved ones to be honored and recognized in this way?"

RUMSFELD: No. And I would just simply repeat that this is a procedure that was adopted by the Department of Defense many years ago, back in the last administration. I do not believe that the person asking the question is correct in saying that the -- clearly the families want it one way. The families, I believe, support the position of the Department of Defense when, back in the last administration, the policy was instituted. And I think that it's probably correct.

The families have every opportunity to handle the burial of their loved ones in any way they want, public or private, and they do that. And it seems to me it's not the government's right or position to make that decision for them.

Note: the origin of the policy was later correctly attributed to the administration of Bush 41 after the MSM used casket pictures for political purposes.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-13 10:48:03 PM|| 2004-09-13 10:48:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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