This picture says it all...

[Snoutport]

Poor girl.



(from: http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/honor-dead-heal-wounded-end-wars)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Doesn't it, though...

I would be insane with grief if I were in her place...

Recommended.

[Snoutport]

2. I thought of you when I saw this picture, Peggy

I have noticed in your threads a that you don't like war too much.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I AM rather outspoken about that, aren't I?

Thank you for paying attention...

:hug:

[Snoutport]

4. I know how that girl feels

That is the true picture of death and war. THAT is the picture that they should show every potential recruit and to every congressman before they vote to send people to war.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I agree, big time. nt

[Lugnut]

17. That girl could be my cousin.

She was 28 years old when her 30 year old husband was killed in a mess tent bombing in Mosul on Dec 21, 2004. His reserve unit was called up to ship out to Iraq that October. His remains are interred at Arlington. Every time I see that picture I think of Amanda and Paul and it brings tears to my eyes.

[Enthusiast]

20. I'm sorry but they could care less.

There was no justification for Afghanistan let alone Iraq. The fact that they will not challenge this obscene level of military spending shows where their loyalties are.

[DCBob]

6. Wow, this got me. I wonder if her husband or father or ?

very very sad.

[Robb]

9. Fiance. (nt)

[DCBob]

10. oh my.

thanks.

[hootinholler]

7. :,(

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Before the shooting started

I wondered what I do if hubby didn't come back.

A war we need to fight is one thing...I knew it was over a lie.

[toddwv]

11. The name on the grave says James John Regan:

http://www.antonnews.com/manhassetpress/2007/02/16/news/



James J. Regan, in his brief life, did not choose the predictable, cushy jobs his background and ability afforded him. Regan, at 26, last week gave his life for his country, a United States Army Ranger killed in Northern Iraq, having already served four tours of duty - two in Afghanistan and two in Iraq. A fellow Army Ranger recalled, "James Regan was the guy you want next to you at all times."

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My guess is that woman in the picture was his fiance at the time of his death: Mary R. McHugh. They were planning on marrying in 2008.

[GReedDiamond]

13. Thanks toddwv, for posting this...

...it literally puts a face on just one of the over 4452 who gave all for a lie.

I hope the woman in the picture has been able to move on with her life...

[Martin Eden]

12. Support the Troops.

Don't send them to die for a lie.

[Bigmack]

14. It's good to reflect ...

that he didn't die for our Freedom.... or protecting our country.

He died for crass political/economic reasons..in some shithole the chickenhawks who sent him there know nothing about. Just like all those good men.. and women... who were killed in the pointless wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. And the shitty little non-wars between, like Somalia.

Got nothing to do with our Freedom.

That picture should break the hearts of the people who sent him.... but it won't.

[ThatsMyBarack]

15. Painfully honest.

Not every homecoming is happy for every soldier or every family (like it is on the Lifetime TV series Coming Home).

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. k&r

[calimary]

18. Oh Dear God, I saw that photo when it was first published. So incredibly sad.

It just speaks volumes. No. LIBRARIES.

My heart just breaks for her.

Thanks, george dubya shithead. And thanks to you, too, dick.

[The Doctor.]

19. Yes, I remember.

I cried then too.

There are words for the sorrow. There are none for the rage.

This is the only reason I pray there is really a Hell for those who have earned it.

[moodforaday]

21. Friends don't let friends

go fight a war of aggression.

It must be said. I feel for the grief stricken woman, but where was she when that guy told her he was going to fight a war? Did she think it was a good thing, an honorable thing? Why do people always have to find out the hard way?

I'm not trying to be callous, I'm trying to be rational. 10 minutes of rational conversation should be enough to convince any rational human being that war is one thing they need to keep as far away from as possible, unless they're fighting enemies at their doorstep.

I wonder how much research people do before they join the military, before they decide to become gun fodder for the corrupt politicians and the corporations that all but own us. My feeling is - and maybe I'm wrong about this, but I can't help thinking - that they spend more time researching an mp3 player they're buying than they do figuring out what they're getting into by joining the military.

Wars will only be fought as long as there are people willing to do what that dead man did. I don't know whether we should actually honor the dead in this case. By honoring the dead we are perpetuating the lie that it is noble to go and die in a war, regardless of what the war is about. As long as that lie, that horrible meme is allowed to continue, the killing will not end.

[L0oniX]

22. +1

[Elwood P Dowd]

23. Her fiance was an honor student and received a scholarship to Duke where he

was a member of the Lacrosse team. He turned down law school after Duke to become a US Army Ranger. She was in medical school at Emory. What could have been........

:cry: