[Former Dodger]

I have DUmmie FUnnies to thank for finding this story. I went to DU and was snooping around and I found the beginning of a thread referring to this article: "Kaneohe marines died for freedom" DU please respond!" I thought it starnge and checked it out. DUmmy Mahina was the poster and after quting from the article, including the Chapaquiddick reference, she wrote this: DU please, please straighten this fella out! It would help to be polite but if you can't muster it I understand . He will get very few letters here. Thanks for your help . (If you want to check for yourselves, here's the link; http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1556163 I think FReepers will have a lot to say to this man, what a great and touching column.

ROCK ON Charles Memminger!

[Former Dodger]

Semper FI!(((ping!))) Great article.

[af_vet_1981]

Great Marine base, great Marines !

[dsc]

I sent him an e-mail to try and cancel out one of the DUmmies.

[cake_crumb]

"The day our Marines died in Iraq, a 28-year-old Maui man was killed in car crash. And a day later, a 15-year-old Honolulu girl was killed driving a stolen car. And an Ohio worker killed his auto plant supervisor. Were those deaths "worth it"? Or worth anything? There are a lot of seemingly pointless deaths every day. About 42,000 people are killed every year in America in automobile accidents. More than 20,000 die from the common flu. Nearly 16,000 people are murdered. Ninety people are killed yearly by lightning. And in 1969 a 29-year-old blonde in Massachusetts was killed because a gutless U.S. senator drove her off a bridge and left her there. Those deaths don't seem to have accomplished anything, except to keep a certain hypocritical pompous toad politician from becoming president."

This excellently written paragraph darned near caused me to fall out of my chair. Memminger is GOOD! We ought to send him nice emails of support to offset the death threats and stuff he's probably getting from the DU

[StarCMC]

Good find!!

Ping

[k2blader]

Bump. Thank you, brave soldiers.