No 'Weekend Warriors' as U.S. Towns Count Guard Dead

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040613/ts_nm/iraq_guard_towns_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

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There is a photo of Duffy in battle fatigues and the legend "Gone but not Forgotten" is written on a black border. The 26-year-old left behind a wife and 8-month-old son.

By the sidewalk in front of the building is a larger version of the same memorial, facing the traffic grinding through this coastal town south of New York.

Across the street at the high school, a sign that usually announces band concerts or football games says the thoughts and prayers of students and faculty are with the family of Spc. Duffy, who graduated in 1996.

Duffy was one of the first four members of New Jersey's National Guard killed in Iraq within two days of each other this month. They joined the growing ranks of National Guard troops to fall in the conflict, belying the guard's one-time reputation among some as an easy source of extra income for "weekend warriors."



Army Sgt. Silivia Torres-Timoteo holds her three-year-old son at the burial for her husband, New Jersey National Guardsman Sgt. Humberto Timoteo, in North Arlington, New Jersey June 12, 2004. Timoteo, a member of the 3rd Battalion of the 112th Field Artillery, was one of four soldiers from the same unit killed last week in Iraq (news - web sites). Child's name was withheld at the request of the family. (Chip East/Reuters)

[boobooday]

1. And we're talking about young people

Not some 93-year-old pampered ex-movie star.

But the flag-draped coffins of these heroes are hidden and ignored by our president.



http://www.wgoeshome.com

[teryang]

4. Love that b.bush quote

It's the equivalent of "let them eat cake."

[dArKeR]

7. Can you back up that Mama Bush quote? It's very difficult to believe!

Thanks!

[Mari333]

2. Bring The Troops Home NOW

http://www.bringthemhomenow.com

[modrepub]

3. From my area in PA

From what I've seen in my local paper:

1 soldier leaving young widow and 1-year old daughter.

1 soldier. Young man who had just been adopted by a local elementary school.

1 sea-bee (engineer) paralyzed from the neck down.


The toll mounts every day. I told a coworker who's a member of a reserve unit that just came back from a 1-year tour in Bosnia before Bush was selected that I'd rather see him as an old man riding in a veterans day parade with little girls giving him flowers than planting a flag on his grave every memorial day.

[dArKeR]

5. I have the proof that Limbaugh type Republicans are truely mentally sick.

Please go the the picture associated with this above story. Look at its rating of 3.43 which means many feces immoral Republican maggots rated this woman and her child looking at their murdered husband and father with a rating of '1'. This is where I'm in favor of the Patriot Act being used to track these mentally deranged maggots down, putting them in prison and throwing away the key.


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[LiberalCat]

6. Bush joined the National Guard to avoid combat.

Isn't it ironic that he now sends them to die.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. Ironic, maybe,

but typical for a Republican chickenhawk