Reply #6: Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Clark

[RamboLiberal]

Friends and family of Ladue Marine Matt Clark's watch as his casket carried into the Cathedral Basilica for his funeral this morning.

In Pittsburgh a lot of liberal host Lynn Cullen's listeners have been grieving all week for this 22 year old Marine. He was dating Lynn's niece Leah and through Lynn and her sister Susan(Leah's mom) we had so gotten to know Matt we began to think of him as "our Marine". Semper Fi Matt.

Radio talk show host Lynn Cullen spoke with the Post-Gazette Wednesday about her emotional broadcast last week on the death of her niece Leah Nuetzel's boyfriend, Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Clark.

"I think everybody has their job, and you journalists are supposed to remove yourselves emotionally, generally," she said. "I never made much of a journalist because it was very hard for me to do that, and as a talk show host I don't remove myself. I want to connect, intellectually, emotionally and mostly, honestly."

She said she has received nearly a hundred positive emails and letters from folks who listened to her tearful broadcast last week.

As she describes the aftermath of Cpl. Clark's death, her voice trembles as it did that day.

"I talk about this war all the time; I've been opposed to it since day one, since before day one. Then this wonderful, wonderful young man takes me closer to it than I'd ever want to be. It's the most hopeless feeling you can have."

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06356/748115-51.stm