Sniper-fire.. Har-dee-har-har & yuk-yuk, guffaw

Gregory B. Rundell

Friday, March 28 2008 @ 02:13 PM EDT
Contributed by: James Van Thach
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Pioneer Press, MN -

A young Minnesota soldier wrote a letter to his mother telling her he stood ready to make a sacrifice so that others might live free. On Wednesday, just three months after being deployed to Iraq, he made that sacrifice.



Army Spc. Gregory B. Rundell, a 21-year-old North St. Paul native, was killed by hostile fire Wednesday while stationed at a U.S. military base north of Baghdad.
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Richardson described her son as "a gentle spirit" with a great sense of humor and a knack for drawing. "Greg was a good kid," she said, with more than a dozen family members lined up behind her. "I stand tall and brave because my son stood tall and brave." Rundell graduated from North St. Paul High School in 2004. He joined the Army in 2005 and was deployed to Iraq last December for an expected one-year tour of duty as a member of a Stryker armored vehicle unit.

He was in a tower when he was hit by small-arms fire from a sniper, his family said. The Department of Defense had not officially announced his death as of Thursday night. Rundell is the 60th Minnesota member of the military to die in Iraq since the war began five years ago.When her son announced he was joining the Army, Richardson said, "it broke my heart." But Rundell had a goal. He had his sights on becoming a police officer because he wanted to help people, his mother said. He believed his experience in Iraq would only make him a better cop.
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Kyle Richardson, Rundell's older brother, was deployed to Iraq a few years ago with the Minnesota National Guard and had warned his younger brother of the dangers. "I told him what to expect," Kyle Richardson said Thursday during the family's announcement at the Maryland Avenue armory. "Trust your gut. If something doesn't feel right, it's not right. I told him just to come back alive and keep his head low."

snip...for the rest of this young man's too-short life
http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/GregoryBRundell

How tasteless can it get.

to injury. It was just like Bushit's joking about WMDs.

(Now I sound just like my Mom, who was a WAC in WWII.)

She treated her story as if she had been talking about the fish that got away--a sportsman. Not a single thought to the fact that people put their own lives in harm's way so that she and we do not have to.

...by misrepresenting the danger that you have faced yourself. But to JOKE about it when we currently have troops in war zones dying from sniper fire?!?! Inexcusable.

:(

All Hillary supporters should write his family a note explaining how her lies about sniper fire and the joke last night aren't anything serious.

Really.

like that masterful reciting of the "bowl off" :puke:

When I heard that abomination, I imagined a couple of tired guys eating cheetos & drinking mountain dew.. busily writing down every bowling cliché they ever heard of..and then stringing them all together in a lame narrative..then high-5ing each other:)

I wonder why the media outlets who have staffers that read DU haven't suggested that to the talking heads....


KO needs to do the story.....Maybe tonight.....

The big deal made of the bwoling score is fluff..but this is bad taste to the nth degree..and extremely bad judgement

:rofl:
legless kids and dead farmers.
that Hillary, she is SO FUNNY!

kids love 'em..and they also look like free food cannisters..

coincidence?




paint them up and have an easter "egg" hunt... just don't drop that egg

there's a damn bad reason why those things look attractive to brown children in other countries that have 'american interests'.

yes, i said it and believe it.

and one-legged girls are not that marry-able and may not have children..

population control writ large..& ugly

I won't EVER be able to get over sniper-gate, and the insensitive joke

April 4th.

the people in the upcoming primaries who thought it was a tasteless, ill-timed attempt at humor express themselves thusly in the voting booth, it's all good.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I read how she tried to laugh off the sniper lie. Gawd, she just has no scruples.

:dem:

called her on it except DU bloggers that I can tell. She goes on a comedy show.

It's totally like bush "looking" for WMD at the white house press club dinner..Yuk Yuk.

The Belfast Telegraph didn't buy it though..

"Her response to being caught lying to a military audience, when she invented a story about being under sniper fire in Bosnia, was to say it wasn't surprising she got some things wrong, seeing how she spoke millions of words every day. What a magnificent idea, that if you say lots of words some of them are bound to be fantastic lies. So if you listen carefully to horse-racing commentators they say things like "And it's Teddy's Boy still leading three furlongs out as they come up to the fourth last fence with Nip and Tuck two lengths behind by the way I fought a tiger once, punched it clean out and they're all safely over."


http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/opinion/article3571700.ece