PLEASE READ THIS LOUNGE THREAD

[achtung_circus]

by Cabcere regarding her friend Danny.

KIA yesterday

"They say that there are different stages of grief people go through when they hear bad news: shock, denial, bargaining, anger, depression, etc. (and finally acceptance, but I'm nowhere near that one yet). This afternoon, at about 12:30pm, my little brother IMed me to tell me that one of my friends from high school was killed in Iraq yesterday. At first, I couldn't believe it...but gradually it sank in, and ever since then I've been on an emotional rollercoaster of depression, numbness, and anger. Right now, I am angry, and so please forgive me if I rant too much here - I just needed to vent somewhere, and right now I'm not in the mood to have my patriotism questioned or my feelings criticized.

*deep breath* Okay, here we go."

Some Lounge threads belong on the Greatest page, including this one

[Cabcere]

1. Thanks achtung_circus

:hug: Someone suggested I cross-post that thread, but I am a n00b and wasn't sure how, lol. :hi:

[achtung_circus]

3. de nada, Hon

My heart goes out to you.

:grouphug:

[salin]

5. praises to achtung for acting... but more praises to you

for sharing such a heartfelt and heartwrenching post. Thanks - and peace to you.

[bonito]

10. Don't know what to say, but many are always here to share

our journeys together with warmth and understanding, Peace to you.

[tnlefty]

11. I read this earlier, and I just couldn't respond to it.

I'm sorry for your loss, and our society's loss as a whole. I think about these losses daily and I've cried from the very first time that I read "the list".

As of tomorrow, I'll be edging closer to the big 50, and when I read the names of all of those killed, but particularly those in the 18 through 20's age group, it really breaks my heart. Their lives were ended before they really began.

My thoughts are with his family and friends along with so many others.

[auntAgonist]

17. Cabcere, I hope in some small way

our condolences and sincere thoughts of sympathy and caring, touch your heart and comfort you and Danny's family at this time.

:hug:

aA







k&R

[k_jerome]

19. i would strongly encourage you to copy your post...

and post it as a new thread in GD. many people will not otherwise see it. thank you for relating this experience.

[salin]

2. Kick and reccomend - this needs to be read

even as it makes one cry.

Thanks for posting this thread and link back to the original thread. :thumbsup:

[dropkickpa]

30. Kick!

[me b zola]

4. #4 looking for a fifth

Damn.

[salin]

7. beautiful - within a minute of your post - the thread is up to seven reccs.

This is a heartfelt story that a Duer chose to share - and should be shared more widely.

[bananas]

8. An earlier post in GD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x218396

[achtung_circus]

6. Thank you GD

7 Reccs in 7 minutes.

[salin]

9. keep it going

and rising up the Greatest 'ladder' - this heartfelt post ought to be widely read.

[Straight Shooter]

12. I will recommend. Maybe a lurker will read it and change their mind about the war.

I mean a lurker who reads us with great skepticism, who hasn't decided yet, because their heart is torn between what is true and what they want to believe.

May there be comfort given to the young man's family and friends for the years of heartaches which will surely follow.

[Katherine Brengle]

13. .

[achtung_circus]

14. Kick nt

[merh]

15. K&R

A tribute to heaven's new trumpter.

[Kali]

16. kick and thanks for doing this

[TheBaldyMan]

18. K&R n/t

[achtung_circus]

20. Kick nt.

[peekaloo]

21. kick

:kick:

[Nevernever]

22. Very sorry for your loss. Understand your anger COMPLETELY.

Unfortunately, this is a play about EMPIRE, and we are only halfway through Act II. More unfortunately Act IV is traditionally the REALLY BLOODY PART.

We are all going to feel this - each and every one, before the denoument.

[Tuesday_Morning]

23. Honoring the fallen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR5hYBzXzTc

[file83]

24. K & R - for Danny

:patriot:

[Raffi Ella]

25. .

:kick:

[myrna minx]

26. I am so sorry for your loss.

:cry: :cry:

[rhett o rick]

27. My sympathy to you. I remember all too well going thru the same thing

in the last military-corporate war as good friends and not so good friends were chewed up by the patriotic death machine.

[Kurovski]

28. K&R

Impeach, indict, imprison.

[Pithlet]

29. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

So sad. Wasted life. I remember finding out someone I went to school with had been killed in Iraq. I found out watching Fahrenheit 9/11. I wasn't as close to him as the poster was to Danny, but I'd known him for years, we were lab partners in science class, and had many of the same friends. He dated a good friend of mine. I was so shocked I had to stop the movie.

[Cabcere]

31. That must have been awful

to find out that way. :cry: I'm so sorry for your loss. :hug: