In many ways, the AmeriKan military, political leadership, and MSM have eaten all of my heart.
I condemn you bastards not only for our war dead, but the MILLIONS of Muslim victims.
"Vt. soldier, wounded 4 years ago in Iraq, dies in Afghanistan" by Emma Stickgold, Globe Correspondent | July 5, 2010
He was injured while serving in Iraq several years ago, his leg wounded from an improvised explosive device. But Specialist Ryan J. Grady of the Vermont Army National Guard was determined to be a career soldier, and headed back overseas in March, this time to Afghanistan.
On Friday, Grady died shortly after his military vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device near Bagram Airfield....
In addition to his father James, 6-year-old daughter Alexis, and wife Heaven, Grady leaves his mother, Debbie Hudacek of Bristow, Okla., and two brothers, Kevin of St. Johnsbury, Vt. and James of Muskogee, Okla....
Tragic.
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Also see: Afghanistan: The Three Trillion Dollar Prize
I hope to hell it was and is all worth it, America, because you will be getting more back the same way.
"In down economy, military recruiting up
With unemployment high and no sign of relief, US military recruiters are having little trouble signing up recruits.Despite the alleged three quarters of growth and all the happy pap we have been presented in our papers lo these many months, kiddo.
In 2009, the Marines were just seven recruits short of their annual goal in Rhode Island, shipping 101 applicants to boot camp. So far this year, 56 Rhode Island Marine applicants have been sent off. Major Andrew M. Henning, commander of Army recruiting in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, says job opportunities have fallen and high school and college graduates are seeking other options (AP)."
ALMOST as if it were BY DESIGN, huh, 'murkn kid?
And you aren't even safe at home, soldier:
"Iraq war veteran killed in motorcycle accident; Worcester man charged in alleged hit-run collision" by Travis Andersen, Globe Staff | July 3, 2010
A correctional officer who served in Iraq with the Navy was killed early yesterday morning in an alleged hit-and-run accident in Worcester, officials said.
Edmund Lindberg, 28, of Worcester, was driving his
Lindberg was thrown from the motorcycle, police said, and the other driver continued traveling west on Whipple Street, located off Blackstone.
Police said Lindberg suffered extensive head trauma and was taken to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, where he was pronounced dead at about 2:30 a.m.
Worcester County Special Sheriff Shawn Jenkins said that just hours before the crash, Lindberg had finished a 3-to-11 p.m. shift at the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction in West Boylston, where he had worked for the past six years.
He said Lindberg was well-liked by his co-workers and had served in Iraq in 2008 and 2009.
Jenkins said Lindberg was single, had no children, and lived with his mother.
Worcester police said Joseph Ferrantino, 28, also of Worcester, called the department about 4:40 the same morning to say he may have been involved in an accident at the location of the crash.
Officers went to his home on Warwick Street, police said, and discovered a blue Pontiac GTO with “extensive fresh damage to the passenger side.’’
Ferrantino was taken to the station for an interview and was later arrested on charges of leaving the scene of a personal injury accident causing death, homicide by motor vehicle, operating as to endanger, failure to yield to oncoming traffic while making a left turn, and a stop sign violation....
The guy made it back only to have this happen?
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Aaaah, here is a story to MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD about WAR!
"Iraq veteran lost 4 limbs, kept hope" by Lizette Alvarez, New York Times | July 4, 2010
Why not?
Was their front-page lies brought it to you, America.
WASHINGTON — At 22, he was a spry, charming infantryman in the Army with a slicing wit and a stubborn streak.
Then, on Easter Sunday, 2009, a roadside bomb exploded under his vehicle, and he became the first veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to lose all four limbs in combat and survive.
In the nearly 15 months since, Specialist Brendan Marrocco has pushed past pain and exhaustion to learn to use his four prosthetics, though he can walk for only 15 minutes at a time. He has met sports stars like Jorge Posada and Tiger Woods — and become something of a star himself here at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where his moxie and humor are an inspiration to hundreds of other wounded service members.
He has also met, fallen in love with, and proposed marriage to a young woman who sees what is there rather than what is missing....
He has not done it alone. His brother, Michael Marrocco, 26, gave up a job at
Their long-estranged parents, an engineer and a nurse, learned to communicate again as they kept vigil by Brendan Marrocco’s bedside in the early months....
I'm just wondering if that could have been done without this, and what does it say about Americans as a people if the answer is no.
And the implication by the New York Times that this is somehow a great thing, I don't know.... it eludes me readers.
I myself have seen NO GOOD coming out of THEIR LIES, although I am $ure certain people and group$ do.
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