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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:55 PM
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Here in silence are 16 more
last night it was 20. I look at each face and wonder... What caused them to enlist? How did they die? Who is left behind to mourn them? When will this end?
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:56 PM
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1. this one hits close to home
http://www.wichitaeagle.com/news/story/106636.html
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-27-07 09:02 AM
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19. Did you read those comments?
He died for our freedom??

People are still drinking the koolaid I see.
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:56 PM
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2. ........
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Rydz777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:13 PM
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3. It is heartbreaking...and maddening. Out NOW! eom
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Zookeeper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:23 PM
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4. 16 or 20 and it's barely acknowledged....
If BushCo had said, "We're going to war and five years from now we'll be losing 16 Americans a day," what are the chances even the coldest Rethug would have thought is was a good idea?

It just makes me so sick. :(
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:28 PM
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5. My extended family has someone over there.
He was just following his father's shoes (retired air force). Hopefully he'll make it through this war and occupation for big oil.
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:28 PM
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6. I just can't read all the deaths anymore
I skim over them now. If I think about it too much my mind starts picturing my brother's wife and kids with some officer walking up the walkway.

Gotta stay positive so family doesn't have a nervous break-down.

When will the madness end?
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:41 PM
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7. all this needless and illegal death for lies. it's so shameful.
:cry:
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:51 PM
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8. Bless Jim Lehrer and Gwen Ifill. I make it a point to read each name, look at each face...
They are so young, most of them. For each one that dies, a family's heart is ripped out.

Hekate
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:59 PM
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9. Me too.
It's really getting to me the last couple of days.
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 10:03 PM
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10. So this is where the information came from ?
I'm not a viewer of PBS newshour. Well, I admire them for doing that. May they RIP.
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 10:18 PM
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11. "And here in silence are XX more. We add them as their names and pictures are made available."
That's PBS's Jim Lehrer's line at the end of the evening news. Gwen Ifill reports with him, and also heads up Washington Week in Review.

Hekate
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 11:01 PM
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12. I'm embarrassed
I noticed that I hadn't mentioned the source at all in my OP. D'OH!

I'd just seen today's faces and was so overcome by them that I forgot. Thanks for providing it.
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 11:05 PM
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13. Thanks for the OP. The presentation is always so dignified, so very present. nt
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-27-07 09:42 AM
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20. Thanks. I was wondering what was going on here. nt
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-27-07 08:58 AM
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18. I can't watch it anymore. I have to leave the room when I hear the
lead-in. So many lives wasted. So many families grieving.
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gulfcoastliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 11:16 PM
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14. K&R A guy I work with left the marines in 2000 (asked him about it today).
Edited on Tue Jun-26-07 11:28 PM by gulfcoastliberal
I remarked that was good timing. He still has friends in the service and is sick about the war, very opposed and angry. I said "support the troops, bring them home NOW" and he is all for it. I even remarked that the politicians There's another 16 priceless reasons to demand the war pigs cease and desist.
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 11:18 PM
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15. What were their struggles and triumphs? What were their biggest lessons from living?
Did they leave love behind in anguish and untellable dispair?
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-27-07 01:08 AM
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16. What were their dreams and aspirations?
Why did they decide to join the military? Love of country? Belief in the cause? Loyalty to *? A job? I think of the mothers crying that their sweet baby is gone.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-27-07 02:56 AM
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17. .......
:patriot:
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genie_weenie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-27-07 09:46 AM
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21. Who cares? Paris is out and about! Rawr...
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