Flags at half staff issues

Only one cup..not the usual 4

 

yes 9 soldiers killed. now i have a funeral to go attend and a daughter to console.

 

who passed. Is it that luke kid? my son just asked me if I had heard about that. sad.

Or am I way off topic again?

 

My condolences, I hope he was not immediate family.

 

We have 2 sons and a daughter in the military. Our prayers are with you.

 

Thanks guys. Its a friend. I know his girlfriend and I didn't realize how well my daughter knew him until tonight. She's pretty shaken up about it and the media showing up at school today didn't help. She will be ok though. She got her acceptance letter to ECU today so it helped.

 

You'll understang that I'm tearing up as I type this. All 9 soldiers were from my beloved 82nd AIRBORNE Division. I have heard from friends through our extended network of the deaths, and have sent a letters of condolence to the families that I knew of...

My prayers and thoughts are with the families of those soldiers.

And I am even more convinced that lying about a BJ is one thing, but no soldier got killed for it. Lying about WMD to attack a sovereign nation and killing 3000 plus of our military, untold tens of thousands of innocent lives, completely destroyong any diplaomatic statesmanship that the US reputation ever had, bankrupting the DOD for it, and continuing the lies are impeachable offenses.

If ever I believed that God should damn anyone, it will be Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfield, burning in the lowest levels of Hell.

When will it be enough, people, that we just won't accept any more of this Bushco BS, and finally call them on the facts?

H6

 

Ahhh...so the truth comes out. He didn't bar "viewing" them....he barred them being sensationalized by the media.

Yes...what a mean, insensitive President. :roll:

 

If pictures cannot be published, not many will see them unless we all drop by the homes of reporters for an impromptu photo viewing. I suppose the grasping of semantical straws is to be expected at this point in the situation.

 

But you've taught us so well over the years....

Come on kid, how old are you really?

 

My God, Wayne, how morbid. What is there to see? It's not the World's Largest Ball of String. It's not something mean for "sightseeing".

The deaths and funerals are announced, so those that want to attend a funeral can. The arrival of the casket at the airport should be a personal, family event with family and fellow soldiers only.

A flag-draped casket is not a photo-op, it's not "something to see". :shock: :roll:

 

I don't know, maybe the results of an idotical plan to "liberate" a sovereign nation from itself using lies as the motive and American soldiers as the payment?

I suppose that is why they do not televise state funerals or hold state showings prior to the funeral. Wait, they do that, but it is an image they want you to see not the image of the numbers of coffins arriving from the pit the present administration has placed our military. Those thousands of coffins will be followed by how many thousands more because of this rush to "glory" by our "fearless" leadership?

 

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB152/index.htm


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-12-31-casket-usat_x.htm

But the ban on pictures from Dover and other military facilities does not extend to recovering the remains of troops killed in previous wars. Reporters can cover the arrival of caskets containing men who died in Vietnam or Korea as they arrive at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. Last month, the Defense Department released a photo of a coffin containing a Korean War casualty being carried off an aircraft by an honor guard at Hickam. The image is almost identical to what takes place at Dover.

Family sensitivities are less a factor at Hickam. "That's not really an issue in these cases, because the families have, unfortunately, had to live with the uncertainty of the missing loved ones for decades," says Larry Greer, spokesman for the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, which brings home those missing from prior conflicts.

Some critics, even in the military, say bringing home lost troops from past wars is seen as good news, while bringing home the dead from Iraq is bad news.

President Bush also hasn't attended funerals or special ceremonies for the military men or women killed in Iraq.

 

...admit to not reading every single post in this thread but....

...on Kaci's thought...after we "went to war", there are quite a few people who won't raise their flags past 1/2 mast until our troops are home for good.


Frogger

 

<Political rant snipped as irrelevant to the question that was posed>

<additional emotional rant snipped for the same reason as above>



State funerals are for public officials. Soldiers are not public officials.

 

Odd, I always looked at all of the people who put their lives on the line for the public as being public officials, but I suppose you have a different view. Of course the government has a different view depending on whether they view the cofins as "good" or "bad" news as noted in the post following this one quoted.

PS the "political rant" was in answer to your question and is very much relevant to the reason they do not want the coffins seen en masse.

 

Laura Bush wants you to know that when it comes to Iraq, no one is suffering more than the First Couple. No one.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/04/laura-bush-wants-you-to-know-that-when.html

 

I'll make sure to remind my wife of that, the next time she has a son/daughter in Iraq and hasn't heard from them in weeks. Could be worse, she could be part of the first couple and their suffering!!!

 

Being "The Flag Police" I can tell you that flying the flag in any other manner than by the "code" is wrong. It's not illegal and I believe every American has the right to do anything they want to the flag. That's exactly what makes this America. But...... my dedication to the honor of my fellow soldiers and personal friends whom I personnally draped the flag over will not be laid down in defense of that flag in vein. I will be dilligent in my duty to them and I will post all those violating the flag code and the honor of those men and women.

On Tuesday I was working in Greenville. I spotted this flag (shown below) in very bad condition. Not only was it flying, but at half mast at that. I went inside the business and told them they needed to retire that flag. I also kindly told them I would not post their name or picture on the web if they would take it down. I returned today to check. Not only is it still flying but they raised it to full mast.

If you would like to support my effort please call them and tell them you don't appreciate it.

The Rug Shoppe
2010 Allen Road
Greenville, NC 27834
252-756-9308



And this one is my all time favorite!!! Lets be a patriot and get good TV reception at the same time!!!!!! It's on Loop Road in Clayton.

 

Regarding Jessica Lynch, mentioned above, it looks like there is a lot for the media to answer for, too.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/media_lynch_mob.html