Wounded Warrior Project

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Mon, 09-13-2004 - 4:29pm

Click on the photo essay link for some heart wrenching photos and soldier's stories. 


http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/

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Mon, 09-13-2004 - 5:07pm
They're so young to have lost so much.
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Mon, 09-13-2004 - 5:22pm
They're all so young. Reading their stories, I got the sense that they don't want pity, they just want to pick up the pieces of their lives and move on. And I hope and pray that the Wounded Warrior project will help them do so. But there's another thing that's bothering me in reading through those stories--weren't those soldiers supposed to have disability allowances? I thought there was some sort of formula that determined percentage of disability and compensation. Of course, if that formula is applied to base pay, it probably wouldn't be enough to live on. The military pays poorly as a general rule. It really stuck in my craw that Halliburton paid its employees so generously while many of the young soldiers with families have to apply for food stamps to make ends meet.

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Tue, 09-14-2004 - 12:28pm

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Tue, 09-14-2004 - 4:33pm
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ITA where's the justice. Does it bother anyone else that young men risk life and limb at an increasing rate, while the party that sent to Iraq feels quite confident that "Americans are safer". Don't these American's count? We have mourned for three years the thousands killed at the WTC, but we haven't mourned one day for the thousand that died in Iraq. Is it a matter of numbers, i.e., not enough young men have died? Is is it a matter of priorities: those who die on American soil count more than those who die on foreign soil? We know know that it is only a matter of time before Iraq falls into civil war. Bush has has failed at every opportunity; he has a flat learning curve. How many more will die before W buys a clue?

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Tue, 09-14-2004 - 5:38pm
>>We have mourned for three years the thousands killed at the WTC, but we haven't mourned one day for the thousand that died in Iraq.<<

Don't you know what the Bush supporters will say to this.....And I quote "The young men/women who died in this war volunteered, they knew what was being asked of them."(end quote). Basicly because they trusted their Commander in Chief, they signed their own death warrants.


Edited 9/14/2004 5:39 pm ET ET by baileyhouse

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Wed, 09-15-2004 - 8:05am
I agree with you and baileyhouse.
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Wed, 09-15-2004 - 9:11am
To paraphrase John Donne--"any persons's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

The quotation ought to be engraved over the door of the Oval Office and in the corridors of the Pentagon. But of course, that will never happen.

And to many people, the Iraqis aren't "us", they're "them", as are the soldiers to a lesser degree.

You're quite right that military recruiters never mention the possibility of death. They talk about world travel, learning job skills, and earning money for college. It's only when a unit is getting ready to deploy to what may be a combat zone that wills are written.

Was posting at the War on Iraq board for over a year, started about 1 1/2 months before war was declared. Saw some of the attitude that baileyhouse mentioned-- "The young men/women who died in this war volunteered, they knew what was being asked of them." To which, I have this reply--"No, they didn't, many of them were still little more than adolescents who believe they're indestructible, oh and by the way, why don't you go Cheney yourself if YOU won't sign up to go to Iraq!"

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Wed, 09-15-2004 - 11:58am
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Yes, I can imagin this is what they would say. However, they are deaths that should be mourned because they made the greatest sacrifice for their country. I am continually amazed at how mean-spirited these so-called Christians can be.




Edited 9/15/2004 12:09 pm ET ET by hayashig

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Agreed, and the truly sad part is that many young men chose this path because otherwise the future looked bleak.

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Wed, 09-15-2004 - 12:03pm
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Actually this is how I see it.....The way I understand Bush supporters regarding loss of military life.."it's business as usual", part of the "job"

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