Their Duty Is to Carry On

[rodeodance]

I have not been to a military funeral. I can see why people/families get caught up in the partriotism of the moment--as they want to believe that their loved ones died for a good cause. Or meeting with the President as Cindy S. did shortly afterwards.
And over time and as emotions change, some have a change of heart (or head?)--and begin to ask WHY.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/20050809/ts_latimes/theirdutyistocarryon;_ylt=As7aytRsPJJe918PFBwU_K.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-


Their Duty Is to Carry On

By David Zucchino Times Staff Writer 25 minutes ago

BROOK PARK, Ohio — Miranda Neighbarger attended her sixth funeral for a fallen Marine on Monday morning in Columbus, and she wept through most of it. Then she climbed into her car and drove 2 1/2 hours to this Cleveland suburb for a wrenching memorial service for 49 Ohio servicemen killed in Iraq.
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There were a few brief speeches by Ohio politicians, all of them received with perfunctory applause save for Gov. Robert A. Taft, who elicited a sudden roar of approval when he said: "They gave their lives in the great struggle of our times, the battle versus terror and terrorism."

There was a stir too when the battalion's rear commander, Lt. Col. Kevin Rush, rose in his Marine dress uniform to accept a folded flag from two local veterans groups.

The colonel spoke of how the battalion had been "disrupting the insurgency on a daily basis" in Iraq, and the crowd howled again........

[teryang]

1. To not ask why

To do and die.