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Richard G
28th December 2003, 05:54 PM
http://members.accessus.net/~tmcdonld/lighthse/Texas.htm
NullPointerException
28th December 2003, 05:59 PM
That's a great way to thank someone for dieing for you.
The Fool
28th December 2003, 07:45 PM
Very touching, who organised it?
a_unique_person
28th December 2003, 09:23 PM
Will they still be turning out when there are hundreds more funerals. Sorry to be cynical, but the interest in soldiers deaths seems to typically be one that reduces astronomically as the death rate goes up.
LeFevre
28th December 2003, 11:24 PM
Originally posted by a_unique_person
Will they still be turning out when there are hundreds more funerals. Sorry to be cynical, but the interest in soldiers deaths seems to typically be one that reduces astronomically as the death rate goes up.

If any of those soldiers come from small Texas towns, yesir, they will turn out.

You will see folks stop their cars, get out, and pay their respects to non-military strangers when a funeral procession goes by.
Zep
29th December 2003, 12:59 AM
That's good to know, LeFevre. And then let's also hope that repeatedly coming out to do this somehow brings the issue of avoidable deaths in Iraq to the forefront of Texas thinking, and results in a questioning of the reasons why it continues to happen. Texas doesn't need this, nor any of the other US states.
Luke T.
29th December 2003, 07:30 AM
Maybe some of you would feel better writing to the soldier's family and telling them his death was a waste?
bug_girl
29th December 2003, 07:52 AM
no, but i would like for the ban on media coverage of the recieving facility for bodies to be lifted.
as a kid during the vietnam war, i have a very strong memory of the body bags coming down a conveyor belt. and coming. and coming......
it gave me a very strong sense of what was being lost, and at what cost. I don't think numbers read on the news give people a sense of the real lives that are lost.
KelvinG
29th December 2003, 08:06 AM
Originally posted by Luke T.
Maybe some of you would feel better writing to the soldier's family and telling them his death was a waste?

That would make about as much sense as writing the family of a person who was speeding and died in a car accident and telling them he deserved it.
It might be true, but it doesn't mean you should be so insensitive as to pass on this opinion to the family.

Is it not OK to think that a soldiers death is a waste because of the politics involved in the war he was part of, while still respecting the family's right to grieve?
I'm not a big fan of the war in Iraq, but I feel bad for anyone who loses a loved one in the conflict.
Crossbow
29th December 2003, 08:06 AM
They can take those sorts of things quiet seriously in Texas.

There was a case several years ago where Ozzy O. did a show in San Antonio, TX and a night or two later he was stumbling around drunk and he had to go, so he took a whiz on the Alamo.

Henceforth, he was officially banned from San Antonio.

Go figure!
BTox
29th December 2003, 08:26 AM
Originally posted by Crossbow
They can take those sorts of things quiet seriously in Texas.

There was a case several years ago where Ozzy O. did a show in San Antonio, TX and a night or two later he was stumbling around drunk and he had to go, so he took a whiz on the Alamo.

Henceforth, he was officially banned from San Antonio.

Go figure!

That was more than 20 years ago, and he is no longer banned from San Antonio. But it is still not a wise idea to urinate on the Alamo!
Crossbow
29th December 2003, 08:30 AM
Originally posted by BTox


That was more than 20 years ago, and he is no longer banned from San Antonio. But it is still not a wise idea to urinate on the Alamo!

Sorry about that!

I was in San Antonio just about three weeks ago and that wiseguy brother of mine said that he was banned.

Maybe I just got some bad data: thanks for the correction!
Jocko
29th December 2003, 08:34 AM
Originally posted by Crossbow


Sorry about that!

I was in San Antonio just about three weeks ago and that wiseguy brother of mine said that he was banned.

Maybe I just got some bad data: thanks for the correction!

Well, whatever the official status of Ozzy in San Antonio may be, I think he'd be foolish to show his face there as long as anyone remembers the Alamo (what he did to it, that is).

Thank God the Japanese were more understanding after Bush I's little stomach problem.
BTox
29th December 2003, 08:48 AM
Originally posted by Crossbow


Sorry about that!

I was in San Antonio just about three weeks ago and that wiseguy brother of mine said that he was banned.

Maybe I just got some bad data: thanks for the correction!

I was there last march - stayed right next to the Alamo at the "haunted" Mengar hotel - didn't see any ghosts :( . I'm also a big Ozzy head.