Sunday, January 30, 2005
Who's Dying in Our War
Who's Dying in Our War? By Rone Tempest - Times Staff Writer
...Exactly one month after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, McCaffrey joined a National Guard unit with a mission statement that emphasizes its engineering support role to "provide mobility, counter-mobility and survivability support to a combat arms brigade" as well as "providing manpower and engineering expertise" during stateside crises...
But as the U.S. campaign in Iraq bogged down in the summer of 2003, the Pentagon turned to its legions of "citizen soldiers," serving mostly weekend duty in crumbling state armories, and ordered them to relieve exhausted regular Army units in Iraq and Afghanistan....
McCaffrey's moves are documented in this article. It's sad and moving to read the article, and angering to think of the events that are the root cause. Ultimately, McCaffrey ends up inside one of the flag draped coffins to return home.
...Exactly one month after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, McCaffrey joined a National Guard unit with a mission statement that emphasizes its engineering support role to "provide mobility, counter-mobility and survivability support to a combat arms brigade" as well as "providing manpower and engineering expertise" during stateside crises...
But as the U.S. campaign in Iraq bogged down in the summer of 2003, the Pentagon turned to its legions of "citizen soldiers," serving mostly weekend duty in crumbling state armories, and ordered them to relieve exhausted regular Army units in Iraq and Afghanistan....
McCaffrey's moves are documented in this article. It's sad and moving to read the article, and angering to think of the events that are the root cause. Ultimately, McCaffrey ends up inside one of the flag draped coffins to return home.
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Yeah.
Check out these links I posted, about the young Marines killed in that helicopter just the other day. Sickening. Bush is the father of lies, a mass-murderer, and a traitor to "his" own troops.
This hits home. These were Kaneohe Marines. This IS home. Especially to us ex-jarheads. A total waste of human lives.
"Remembering the fallen"look at these kidsSupport The Troops!
bring 'em home
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Yeah.
Check out these links I posted, about the young Marines killed in that helicopter just the other day. Sickening. Bush is the father of lies, a mass-murderer, and a traitor to "his" own troops.
This hits home. These were Kaneohe Marines. This IS home. Especially to us ex-jarheads. A total waste of human lives.
"Remembering the fallen"look at these kidsSupport The Troops!
bring 'em home
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Cosa, those articles are so sad. Those men had plans for the future and now they're dead. No future for them. Too many lives have ended through this occupation. Yes, bring the troops home. Support them in this way.
Worse yet, a lot of them were newly married, or had just had kids, some of whom never saw, and never will see their fathers. For what? For what?
I amke myself watch the CBS News "Fallen Heroes" each and every night. I get so sad/angry that these young lives have been curtailed in such a selfish and hypocritical manner.
They had plans and dreams...
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