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2005-11-12 Home Front: WoT
Final Salute
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Posted by Oldspook 2005-11-12 14:37|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 
Terrorists are cock roaches.

"I held his tiny hand and watched as the monitors told the story: His heart was in trouble owing to the brain trauma. I watched as he fought for his life, fighting to breathe. But I knew he was dying and there was nothing I could do. This innocent Muslim child, who had been observing Ramadan the way a child does, was now dying despite the fact that my blood was moving though his veins, despite the fact that I pleaded with G-d to do what I thought was right, to keep him alive."

They even kill Children
Posted by RG 2005-11-12 15:18||   2005-11-12 15:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Jeebus, Spook! Well, I guess you did give a tear alert. Thanks for sharing. My sleeve is wet, but I might save the whole article.

The most important part - not where I started sobbing and my wife came in - is the following, I think:

"One morning after burying a lance corporal, all I wanted to do was come home and play with my children. Just take them into a corner with all their things and play with them," he said. "But you know, all I was thinking about while I was playing with them were all those guys out there in harm's way, making all that possible."

God bless them, every one.

I'm so glad my son is a Marine!
Posted by Bobby 2005-11-12 15:29||   2005-11-12 15:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Salute indeed. God bless them.

And please, don't insult cockroaches like that. I'm sure they have some redeaming qualities. Terrorists have none.
Posted by CrazyFool 2005-11-12 15:30||   2005-11-12 15:30|| Front Page Top

#4 My son graduated from Marine OCS and will be commissioned after graduation next summer. I am proud that he will be a Marine. God Bless them all.
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2005-11-12 17:00||   2005-11-12 17:00|| Front Page Top

#5 And please, don't insult cockroaches like that. I'm sure they have some redeaming qualities.

Yes, cockroaches are incredibly resistant to very high doses of nuclear radiation. Thankfully, and probably much to their impending surprise, terrorists are not.
Posted by Zenster 2005-11-12 17:09||   2005-11-12 17:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Well researched. Well observed. Well wriiten. No slant. No anti-anything. Just the straight story of the families and the Corps. Kudos to the writers for having the guts to report a hard story the hard way, and the class do right by all those in the story.

Everyone, please write to the editors of the Rocky Mountain New paper and congratulate them on a job well done by their reporters and editors on this story. We bitch about the press when they get it wrong, lets let them know whenthey get it right.
Posted by Oldspook 2005-11-12 19:04||   2005-11-12 19:04|| Front Page Top

#7 I went to bookmark the home page of the Rocky Mountain News and found the article was on the front page, and included a lot of background and slide shows - which I haven't seen yet....
Posted by Bobby 2005-11-12 19:05||   2005-11-12 19:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Dear G_d, Dear, dear G_d
Posted by Jim">Jim  2005-11-12 19:53|| http://Technochitlins.com]">[http://Technochitlins.com]  2005-11-12 19:53|| Front Page Top

#9 awesome - I'm crying like a baby. Beck is our finest
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-11-12 19:54||   2005-11-12 19:54|| Front Page Top

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