How to Celebrate Memorial Day
A Gold Star father on remembrance, coping and how to celebrate the day.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:31 am Comments (10) on Sunday, May 27, 2007
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May 27th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Meanwhile, a veteran speaks:
“…Traitors like George W. Bush and his enablers in the House, the Senate, the media, and the American heartland have done more damage to U.S. national security through reckless foreign policy than any foreign enemy ever could—and the military knows it. The statements by these people this Monday will ring hollow for all of those who actually have served overseas since 9/11.
As veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan we recognize that the Bush administration has given us nothing for the past half decade but maimed and killed comrades, deployment extensions from one year to 15 months, and a broken military. That’s not how you honor the dead on Memorial Day—or any day. We see statements about paying “tribute to Americans from every generation who have given their lives for our freedom,” as insults to those who have died in Iraq after willingly joining the military—and who believed that their government would do the right thing. The honor of those troops has been betrayed. And we, as soldiers and marines, stopped buying into these types of disingenuous displays of “support” long ago.
Mr. President, members of the Republican Party, on this Memorial Day weekend, as a veteran who knows a handful of soldiers who’ve been killed in Iraq, I have but one statement that I’d like to issue: Fuck off.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/27/14235/0811
May 27th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Hey, Jules, the *REAL^ paper in Boston nails brownshirts like yourself dead to rights:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/05/27/gop_rivals_embrace_unproven_iraq_911_tie/
May 27th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Thanks for the link, Jules.
Dave, two swings, two misses; I don’t think you’re quite ready for T-Ball.
Cheers
May 27th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Ummm, Dave baby…how does it feel to live in our country now that you’ve defected from___________________________ (fill in the blank)?
OH wait…geez a blank filling in a blank…hmmmm.
May 27th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
We could give your comment more weight, Dave, if there hadn’t been so many anti-war types claiming to be veterans when they never served a day in uniform. How can we know you aren’t one of them?
May 27th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Twerps like Dave would have been great at the duck and cover drills I did as a little kid — they already have their heads up their asses.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Personally, I am going to go to the local memorial with the hundreds of others who gather there every year. My town has sent so many to fight – from the Civil War on to today. I will remember those in the 2-256 ADA and 1-168 INF who made sure I came home – even if they didn’t.
May 28th, 2007 at 2:48 am
On this Memorial Day, as on every Memorial Day, I will remember those in my family who died in the service of their country: I especially remember my beloved nephew CharlieO, who lived a secret life and died a secret death in Iraq; my father, who died trying to get men out of the engine room of his ship after a boiler blew up; and my older brother, who finally succumbed to the bugs he got while in Viet Nam–and who still served for 26 years in the Navy–at the age of 54; and all those who have likewise died in the service of this country. I honor all of you on this day, and every day I breath free.
May 28th, 2007 at 4:33 am
Robert Stokely: Memorial Day – A Day to REMEMBER
No excerpting this one. Read it. (H/T: Jules C.)
May 28th, 2007 at 4:46 am
I guess our family’s been lucky, and we do appreciate the sacrifices of those who haven’t. Dad was a proud WW2 vet, as were several of my uncles on both sides of the family, and I’ve lost count of the cousins who’ve served. My nephew just got his silver bars and will be starting flight training this fall; I reminded him he still had time to drop out of ROTC shortly after 9/11 and you’d have thought I just suggested raping his little sister. Dad lost a younger cousin in Korea but that’s as close to home as it’s ever gotten, unless you count my cousin who came back from Nam with a 4 pack a day Camel habit and died of lung cancer.
Jules, why do you even let people like Dave hang around? He isn’t fit to eat a real man’s shit. Send him back to DU where he’ll fit in.
Bill Faith
Proud Veteran-American