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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject: Ben Stein: "The Cost of the War on Terrorism" |
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Excellent commentary by Ben Stein...give the website a hit...
| Quote: | The Cost of the War on Terrorism
By Ben Stein
The American Spectator
Published 6/6/2005
On the Saturday night before Memorial Day, the cost of the war on terrorism were wearing red T-shirts. They were in a small ballroom on the second floor of the Crystal City Doubletree Hotel in Northern Virginia, within sight of the Pentagon.
There were about 250 of them. Children of men and women who had been killed in the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and in training. They were maybe from age five to fifteen. They were handsome. They were pretty. They were cute. They had haunted eyes, some of them, and some of them cried. One family had five kids, and the oldest, a beautiful 15-year-old girl, could not stop crying...
The American Spectator - cont'd |
Hat tip: Power Line |
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GenrXr
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Love this line, | Quote: | | So that the witches of Beverly Hills and Fifth Avenue can go on with their shopping, these women lost their husbands. |
Oliver North, Sean Hannity and many others have a great foundation for people wishing to donate to the children of those who have died. 100 percent of proceeds goto scholarships for the chidlren of fallen men and women.
http://www.freedomalliance.org/scholarship.htm
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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TAPS is indeed a very special organization, and Ben Stein describes them so beautifully! My husband and I got to know Bonny Carroll, the founder, after 9/11 when we volunteered in the Family Assistance Center for the family members from the Pentagon. She is a wonderful inspiration!
As representatives for another very special organization for families who have lost children regardless of age, The Compassionate Friends, we attended one of their conferences where we did a session on grief for the parents of the deceased active duty member. Sadly, the parents of a married soldier are the "forgotten" mourners since they are not the next of kin.
I remember someone questioning why The Compassionate Friends had their literature out at the Family Assistance Center because there were no children killed at the Pentagon. These folks simply forget that everyone of the deceased were the children of someone and they grieve too!
The military supports TAPS in a wonderful way and they have certainly come a long, long way from the days of the Vietnam War.
Bonny founded this organization because she realized the issues of the surviving spouse of an active duty member are, in many cases, so different from those of other widows and widowers. They needed the ability to talk to someone who had also lost a spouse while on active duty. The group includes all active duty deaths, not just those from Iraq and Afghanistan.
If any of you know a family who has lost a loved one while on active duty, tell them about TAPS. Their web site is http://taps.org. There is a picture of everyone wearing their red T-shirts and the woman standing on the far left in a dark suit is Bonny. |
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