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sjdnb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:13 AM
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Just throw them all on the pile - how the Bush Admin supports the troops
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Source: NY Times

FORT LEWIS, Wash. — Twenty soldiers deployed to Iraq from this Army base were killed in May, a monthly high. That same month, the base announced a change in how it would honor its dead: instead of units holding services after each death, they would be held collectively once a month.

The anger and hurt were immediate. Soldiers’ families and veterans protested the change as cold and logistics-driven. Critics online said the military was trying to repress bad news about deaths. By mid-June, the base had delayed the plan.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/us/25funeral.html?_r=...


I don't think I can get much more disgusted by this Admin's treatment of our troops, the truth, or the Constitution than I am at this moment.
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  -Just throw them all on the pile - how the Bush Admin supports the troops sjdnb  Jul-25-07 12:13 AM   #0 
  - Can't go buryin' 'em retail if you're gonna be killin' 'em wholesale  PurityOfEssence   Jul-25-07 12:38 AM   #1 
  - That comment is so cold ...  NanceGreggs   Jul-25-07 01:11 AM   #2 
  - They're trying to eliminate the funerals  Cobalt-60   Jul-25-07 01:37 AM   #3 
 

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