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Hanover_Fist Donating Member (130 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 06:43 PM
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CNN reporting on their website
that soldier 2000 wrote his own obit prior to shipping out for Iraq. Not that any one casualty is more important than another, still this just kills me......
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 06:44 PM
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1. Link?
thanks
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Hanover_Fist Donating Member (130 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 06:46 PM
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4. Sorry, too computer illiterate to know how tho do that.
just go to the CNN mainpage, it's right there.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 06:45 PM
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2. heartbreaking
Edited on Tue Oct-25-05 06:47 PM by annabanana
every. single. death.

this administration is drenched in blood

and they have drenched us too, in our inability to stop them
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adarling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 06:45 PM
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3. that is so sad
this poor man, he was just in the national guard, he should be here right now helping with the hurricane not fighting an unjust evil war.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 06:46 PM
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5. Damn. Too said for words.
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 06:47 PM
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6. Link here ...
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 06:48 PM
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7. That standard practice for the military. They always ask you to
voluntarily write that last fucking letter or obit or whatever you wanna write before active duty in a war zone.
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Hanover_Fist Donating Member (130 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 06:50 PM
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9. I don't know,
when I was in the navy they wanted us to make out a will,but not and obituary.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:58 AM
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10. We were told to make out all that crap too.
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 06:49 PM
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8. If his obit is critical of the war and shrub I'll believe it ...
if not it will be tough to convince me that the DoD isn't trying to create another tillman
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