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God Bless the Troops
The group I belong to, Richmond Area Top 3 (RATIII) gave a pizza lunch at the VA hospital to for several severely injured young soldiers.
For one young Marine it was his second month in rehab. when we saw him last month he had not said a word since making it to Richmond McGuire VA Hospital. One of the guys in our group is a Marine, when the young soldier was told our guy was a Marine, he looked him straight in the face and uttered his first words since being blown up by an IED. He said "OOOH AHH", and he tried to smile.
Today we had a couple of Marine Officers and a Marine Master Gunny Sargent went with us to visit these young Warriors. This young wounded Warrior, reached out and touched the Gunny and in a slurred voice, you could hardly understand, started to sing the Marine Hymn. It was so emotional seeing this severely wounded Marine sing the Marine Hymn together with his 3 brothers in arms. Several of us, including me had to turn away, you never lets these young brave men and women see you cry. They do not want pity, they just want respect and to be able to recover and return to their unit.
It was an unreal experience. It got me then and it is getting me again as I write this.
2007-06-13T18:15:25Z
This is not about the War, it is about the Warrior, the young dedicated men and women who are giving their all. They are not only from this war, but all our previous wars. They are all volunteers, they did not have to join, but they did and they serve with honor. Please do not degrade their sacrifices with political bias. This is not about Bush, Clinton, Kerry or any other politician. It is just about the soldiers.
Koneko2007-06-13T16:00:57Z
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I visit veterans who live in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. I love the old military guys. They are a hoot. Some of them are so stoic and militaristic still...until they get a woman to smile at them and hold their hand or give them a hug and then they melt like butter. It's really sweet.
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Well Sgt Major, not many do much for the wounded except their families and those caring for them. Bush only cuts the VA hospitals budget by $100 Billion in 2006, so I suspect he doesn't care very much either. He tried to cut them again in his last budget, but it was taken out!
Wonder when the government is going to admit agent Blue causes cancer?
I don't even want to see that kind of propaganda as it perpetuates an illegal war in which 105, 000 are currently being treated by the VA and 3, 790 being brought home in body bags!
There is nothing glorified about war, it stinks, and it sure in the hell isn't if it is over oil while Bush tries and take your rights under the Constitution!
" Court rules in favor of enemy combatant By ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
RICHMOND, Va. - The Bush administration cannot legally detain a U.S. resident it suspects of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday.
"To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the President calls them 'enemy combatants,' would have disastrous consequences for the constitution — and the country," the court panel said.
In the 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that the federal Military Commissions Act doesn't strip Ali al-Marri, a legal U.S.resident, of his constitutional rights to challenge his accusers in court. It ruled the government must allow al-Marri to be released from military detention.
He is currently the only U.S. resident held as an enemy combatant within the U.S . Jose Padilla, another U.S. citizen, was held as an enemy combatant in a Navy brig for 3 1/2 years before he was hastily added to an existing case in Miami in November 2005, a few days before a U.S. Supreme Court deadline for Bush administration briefs on the question of the president's powers to continue holding him in military prison without charge.
Al-Marri has been held in solitary confinement in the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., since June 2003. The Qatar native has been detained since his December 2001 arrest at his home in Peoria, Ill., where he moved with his wife and five children a day before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to study for a master's degree at Bradley University. Al-Marri's lawyers argued that the Military Commissions Act, passed last fall to establish military trials after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, doesn't repeal the writ of habeas corpus or defendants' traditional right to challenge their detention."
There is no need for anyone to have ever been killed or wounded in Iraq, another war based om lies!
Thank goodness the DAV got in there before the Bush Administration cut off his Social Security Disability and tried to change the rating criteria on his wounds
I befriended a young soldier in our community who was dealing with emotional issues related to serving in the war. He must be getting better, because they're sending him back soon.