Occupation Iraq: Buried Inside
The Boston Globe Says War is Fun
"In small town, an immense loss; Mashpee mourns for 2 servicemen" by Christopher Baxter and Jonnelle Marte, Globe Correspondents | August 18, 2008
MASHPEE - An American flag rippled at half-staff yesterday in the center of the town's quiet Veterans Garden, where residents will gather tonight for a candlelight vigil in honor of two servicemen who died on consecutive days last week.
"It's going to probably be one of the biggest crowds I've ever seen," said Jake Ricker, 19, friend and high school classmate of both fallen soldiers. "Those two kids are connected to every single person in this town in some way."
Army Private First Class Paul E. Conlon, 21, a 2005 Mashpee High School graduate, was killed Friday in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan while riding in a Humvee, his family said. A day earlier, Marine Private First Class Daniel A. C. McGuire, 19, a 2007 Mashpee High School graduate, died while on a security patrol outside Fallujah, Iraq.
News of the deaths was still spreading yesterday through the Upper Cape community of about 14,000 residents, home to two or three graduates each year who opt for the armed services, said John J. Cahalane, chairman of the Mashpee Board of Selectmen. School leaders made plans for counseling, church congregations discussed ways to reach out to the families, and friends visited Internet networking sites to remember the fallen.
No thought of ENDING this INSANITY though, right?
"There's been more than 4,000 deaths over there, and all of a sudden we've had two in a small town like ours," Cahalane said. "It's just incomprehensible."
Yeah, well try TWO MILLION IRAQIS DEAD and COUNTLESS AFGHANIS on for size, sir!!!
All based on the UNHOLY LIES of BUSH and his cabal!!!!!
For the young, seemingly "bulletproof," the deaths served as a hard reminder of the fragility of life and the sacrifices of war, said Ted Theis, commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5489 in Mashpee.
"The older you get, the harder this stuff is to take," he said. "When you get over 60, you've enjoyed your life and the friends you served with didn't enjoy their life, and seeing kids losing theirs is double as difficult."
Yeah, tell me about it!
Especially when we were LIED INTO THESE WARS by the MSM and GOVERNMENT!!!!!
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The reason this is so hard to take for older people, readers, is because AS LIFE EBBS you DEVELOP an APPRECIATION and RESPECT for LIFE!!!!
You begin to realize how PRECIOUS SUCH a THING IS!!!
I am SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!!!
So END the GOD-DAMN BLOODY OCCUPATIONS!!!!!!
