The Globe SUCKS, readers!!!!!
Oh, and the people in the picture -- they live JUST DOWN the ROAD, readers.
Carlos Arredondo (left) held a boot yesterday representing his son, Alexander, who died fighting in Iraq. Standing beside him were Joyce and Kevin Lucey, whose son Jeffrey killed himself after returning from the war in Iraq. (Michele McDonald/Globe Staff)
"Rally's veterans, activists avoid glorifying war; Hold different Memorial Day observance"
The night before he hanged himself with a garden hose in the basement of his parents' home, Jeffrey Lucey asked if he could sit on his father's lap. For the better part of an hour, Kevin Lucey quietly held his 23-year-old son, an Iraq war veteran who had returned depressed and deeply ashamed of what he said was his brutal treatment of Iraqis. When Kevin Lucey discovered his son's body the next night, there was a suicide note: "I am totally embarrassed at the man I have become and I hope you can remember me only as a child."
Yeah, something my local featured on its FRONT PAGE on SUNDAY!!!
Pfffttt! Screw you, Globe!!!!
Although the agenda-pushing aspect of the paper tells me you girls better get ready for a draft. They are gonna need you!!!!
Jeffrey Lucey was not counted among the 4,082 American troops who have died in the war so far, but, yesterday, veterans groups and peace activitists remembered the Marine Reserve lance corporal along with tens of thousands of others whose deaths are attributable to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Please see: 18 Vets Commit Suicide Every Day
As sunbathers lolled on the grass of Christopher Columbus Park, protesters dropped a carnation into Boston Harbor for each of the 80 Massachusetts service men and women who died in the two conflicts, then tossed bouquets on the water for troubled veterans such as Lucey as well as the countless Iraqis who have died since the 2003 US invasion.
God bless them!
"This government has steeped all of us . . . in a shroud of shame," said Kevin Lucey of Belchertown, who has filed a federal lawsuit against the Veterans Affairs secretary for failing to get his son the help that could have prevented his 2004 suicide. "Please help us stop it now."
Organizers of the waterfront rally, including Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War, said they wanted an alternative way to mark Memorial Day from traditional "militaristic" parades and speeches that glorify war.
Which is ALL WE GOT from the AGENDA-PUSHING, WAR-PROMOTING MSM!
That's what happens when Lockheed and Boeing are your top advertisers, right, MSM?
For instance, President Bush yesterday talked about soldiers in Iraq who died "doing what they loved most: defending the United States of America." The reality, said Memorial Day for Peace organizers, is that troops and civilians alike are dying for Bush's foreign policy mistakes.
Not his LIES, 'eh, AmeriKan MSM?
This is why your cred is toast with the American people!
Yet, despite opinion polls over the last two years that consistently show the majority of Americans oppose the five-year-old war, many protests draw small crowds. Only about 100 people, mostly veterans and veteran activists, turned up at the waterfront, drawing a few barbs from the speakers about all the people who view Memorial Day as little more than a day off from work.
Oh, they are INCREDIBLE!!
Yup, even if its DOZENS of protesters, the Tibet, global warming, immigration, gays, they all GET COVERAGE with NO DISPARAGING REMARKS!!
I'm SO SICK of these LYING AGENDA-PUSHING SHIT HEADS of the Zionist-controlled, WAR-PROMOTING AmeriKan MSM, readers!!!
Fuck them!! They are JUST AS RESPONSIBLE for this MASS-MURDERING ESCAPADE as Bush is!!! Yup, SUPPORT the TROOPS by COVERING UP and LYING about WARS and EVERYTHING ELSE, shit AmeriKan MSM!!
FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
"It's indicative that the war is not touching people that much," said Nate Goldshlag of Veterans for Peace. The 35,000 dead and wounded are concentrated among military families rather than spread across the 300 million population, he explained, and no one is being asked to pay higher taxes to finance the war. As a result, he said, "The war is hidden from America."
Yeah, and HERE is WHY!!!!!
But the war is ever-present for Ian J. Lavallee, cochairman of the Boston chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Lavallee, 24, stabbed himself in a men's room stall of New York City's Penn Station one drunken night after he returned from Iraq in December 2005. The military gave him an honorable discharge based on a pre-existing personality disorder, Lavallee said, but hasn't accepted his claim that the war drove him to a suicide attempt.
SUPPORT the TROOPS!!! See: V.A. To Combat Combat Stress
Lavallee, who served in the 82d Airborne Division, said he was constantly pressured to be more brutal and aggressive. During his four months stationed west of Mosul, Lavallee said, he helped terrify Iraqi detainees, forcing them to eat pork against the teaching of Islam, humiliating them in front of their families, and even throwing them off trucks.
"The things we were doing just encouraged more people to dislike us, not to want us there, and, frankly, try to kill us," said Lavallee, who said he "became a person that I never wanted to become."
Aaaah, the SWEET SHITSTINK of Bush's "LIBERATION!"
Also see:
"Occupation Iraq: Winter Soldiers Speak"
"Memorial Day Special...Winter Soldier on the Hill: War Vets Testify Before Congress"
"Occupation Iraq: Winter Soldiers Work"
Now, Lavallee devotes himself to helping other veterans through his group, eking out a living on his $728-a-month government disability check. Lavallee argues that the government - not the troops - deserve the blame for incidents of brutality. "We all are capable of doing the best things or the worst things," he said. "Our soldiers are just reacting to a horrific crisis our government has put them in."
SUPPORT the TROOPS!!!
Joyce Lucey said it was too late to save her son Jeffrey, who never recovered from the nightmares, depression, and substance abuse that plagued him after his service in Iraq. But she said many other veterans need more psychological and medical help than the government will provide. "War robbed them first of their innocence, then of their future," she said."
But according to Bush and the MSM, it is GLORIOUS!!!!!
Never mind all the LIES told so send us there!!!!
"Taking time to remember the fallen; Crowds turn out to honor service"
As Massachusetts residents marched in parades and stood solemnly during Memorial Day observances yesterday, what struck the deepest chord for Bob Stevens was the crowd that he estimated in the thousands lining the parade route in Cambridge....
"I think there's a growing awareness, particularly because of the war that's going on over in Iraq, of the service of our current men and women who are also giving up their lives in defense of our country," said Stevens, a Vietnam veteran who has been organizing Cambridge's annual parade for 13 years.
I guess that's why the MSM is minimizing it and telling the public we no longer are interested, right?
Across the state, Massachusetts residents and elected officials took time to remember the lives of the men and women who died serving their country....
Or serving George W. Bush's imperial ambitions! Same thing, right?
After most of the parades and ceremonies across the state had ended, about 100 Marines from First Battalion 25th Marine Regiment gathered at the Fort Devens Army Training base to say goodbye to their families before heading to California for 10 weeks of training before their deployment to Iraq....
Yup, after all the celebrations (people who view Memorial Day as little more than a day off from work), etc, it is OFF to WAR!!!!
About 100 more Marines from the 25th Battalion took part in similar ceremonies at three other locations across New England, Meadows said.
"A handful" were preparing to return to Iraq, Meadows said."
After showing off their supplies and bidding farewell to their families, the Marines boarded buses and began their trip to Twentynine Palms, a Marine Corps base in California, for 10 weeks of field conditioning and training before their deployment to Iraq."
Well, that will be MORE DEAD we have to remember NEXT YEAR, right?
More protest the MSM won't cover:
Disrupted: Tony Blair's speech at Yale University is disturbed by students protesting against the Iraq war
"Tony Blair was left reeling last night after students disrupted his debut speech at Yale University to protest at his role in taking Britain and America to war in Iraq.The former Prime Minister, who is normally immensely popular in the US for his support for President George W Bush's 'war on terror', faced an unexpected protest from anti-war protesters when he arrived to give his lecture at the Ivy League university.
Bastards should be dogged everywhere they go.
Some smuggled banners bearing anti-war slogans into the venue which they held up as Mr Blair was speaking and when he had finished boos could be heard amid the applause.
Mr Blair's arrival was met by a small but vocal contingent of protestors waving placards that read "No to Blair" and "Yale! Don't Support a War Criminal", but police held them back from the ceremony, which was held in a large gated garden.
They never stop, do they, readers? Pfffffftttt!!!!
But as he took to the podium, Mr Blair, 54, was met with dozens of red signs that students had hidden under their graduation robes, reading "Peace Now" and "No War".
One student, a young woman wearing a headscarf, stood throughout the ceremony, holding a "Peace Now" sign above her head just 10ft in front of the former Prime Minister, who appeared to be doing his best to avoid looking at her.
GUILT!!!!
Mr Blair also avoided referring to Iraq by name as he talked about the rise of India and China as future world superpowers, the problem of climate change, and the threat of "terrorism fueled by religion"....
Pushing that Globalist agenda, I see!!!
The incident was especially embarrassing for Mr Blair because Yale is the university from which his son, Euan, has recently graduated.
The identity of the 2008 guest speaker at Yale had been confirmed in February, but was kept secret until just a few weeks ago because of "security concerns", claimed the university newspaper.It is the second time in two months that Mr Blair has been the focus of protests over his role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq by American and British forces on the false pretext that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.
In early April hundreds of anti-war protesters converged on Westminster Cathedral, London, where they tried to drown out Mr Blair's words as he delivered his debut speech on religion at the invitation of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, who had received him into the Catholic Church at Christmas.
The proper spelling is BLIAR!!!!
The presence of anti-war protesters in American as well as Britain suggests that Mr Blair's decisions on military intervention in Iraq could haunt him for years to come....
Man, does Jimmy Carter ever put this guy to shame!!!!
