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Vietnam veteran robbed, killed on his way to deposit VFW money
chicago tribune ^ | November 20, 2009 | Jeremy Gorner and Wendy Normandy

Posted on 11/21/2009 7:07:12 AM PST by KeyLargo

Vietnam veteran robbed, killed on his way to deposit VFW money

William Burtner had helped raise money for WWII vets' trip to Washington

Army veteran William Burtner survived Vietnam and dedicated his life to helping other veterans.

On Monday, Burtner was about to enter a bank in Midlothian to deposit money that the south suburb's Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2580 had raised during a benefit.

He never made it inside.

Burtner, 65, was assaulted and robbed outside the bank. He died Wednesday night in Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

An autopsy Thursday concluded Burtner died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease and fractured ribs from the assault, the Cook County medical examiner's office said. It ruled the death a homicide.

Burtner was about to deposit proceeds from a VFW benefit last weekend for Chicago area World War II veterans so they could visit a war memorial in Washington, said Katherine Foss, a family friend...........

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: honorflights; illinois; murder; obamasupporters; obamavoters; robbery; veterans; vfw
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To: American Infidel

Thank you very much.


21 posted on 11/21/2009 3:44:09 PM PST by Spike Knotts
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To: Spike Knotts

Torch and knife? Nah, tie ‘em to a car and drag ‘em. This veteran served his country in a time of war and he’s beaten to death in the street by two pieces of human tissue whose fathers should have left them as a stains on the bed-sheet. God Bless his soul.


22 posted on 11/21/2009 4:19:51 PM PST by JoeMac ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!'' Popeye The SailorMan)
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To: KeyLargo

RIP...


23 posted on 11/24/2009 8:11:41 PM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: Carley

More black-on-white crime. It’s an epidemic in this country. This guy was 65, he had cancer and had been undergoing chemo, so he was no doubt in a weakened state. These thugs probably could have just taken the money box from him and ran, but they had to give him a beat-down. We see this over and over and over again. We just saw another conviction for it in the Anne Pressly case in Little Rock. Blacks are not satisfied to rob and rape anymore. Nearly all black-on-white crime involves a horrific beat-down. There was a case the other day of a black guy beating down a 101 yr. old white woman in a purse-snatch robbery.

Here’s video on this VFW case: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=7129009

There is a media black-out on these stories, so they’re hard to find or else it’s hard to find out the race of the perpetrator without doing some research. They’re happening in multiple cities and towns every day.


24 posted on 11/24/2009 8:30:52 PM PST by bustinchops (Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
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To: Rocketwolf68

It’s gotten worse since zero was elected. Blacks think they’re in charge now and that they have carte blanche to do whatever they want to whites.

The only way to stop these lower-than-animals is to shoot them dead. They are getting worse, not better. The media is their accomplice, as is the defense bar and a huge slew of NGOs and politicians.


25 posted on 11/24/2009 8:39:29 PM PST by bustinchops (Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
...money that the south suburb's Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2580 had raised during a benefit... for Chicago area World War II veterans so they could visit a war memorial in Washington...
The suspects -- probably wearing Obama t-shirts -- crashed the car they'd used for the alleged getaway.
26 posted on 11/24/2009 8:43:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SES1066
Obvious hate crime, victim was a white elderly veteran and the perp was a younger black with a criminal record.

But it is reparations for social justice (/sarcasm)

27 posted on 11/24/2009 8:47:34 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (The DemocRat Party = Enemies of Freedom.)
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To: KeyLargo

Black guy, no doubt. They think they can do anything and get away with it not that Obongo the half black usurper is squatting in the WH.


28 posted on 11/24/2009 9:02:22 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: KeyLargo

Chicago is a cesspool.


29 posted on 11/24/2009 9:02:47 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: SunkenCiv

30 posted on 11/24/2009 9:09:35 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: bustinchops

I think that there is something to that theory. Obama told his “followers” to “get-in-their-face”.

I have heard plenty of quotes in various media that, “We’re in charge now”.


31 posted on 11/24/2009 10:30:16 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: KeyLargo

Time for the “Rainbow Brigade” in Chicago to condemn this and donate some of their “shakedown” money to the VFW and this man’s family for services.


32 posted on 11/24/2009 10:31:59 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: KeyLargo

May the Lord’s Vengeance fall upon those murderers.


33 posted on 11/24/2009 10:51:39 PM PST by Kitty Mittens (To God Be All Excellent Praise!!)
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To: machogirl
You mean you haven't seen these t-shirts being paraded around:?

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34 posted on 11/24/2009 11:39:50 PM PST by streetpreacher (Arminian by birth, Calvinist by the grace of God)
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To: machogirl

Yeah. Instead of seeing the election of a black (half black, really) man as a the unifying event that whites saw it as, blacks have taken the same low road they’ve traveled as a group for the last forty years. They decided that it was a statement of racial superiority, even though the dumbest black voter in this country cannot avoid the truth that whites elected zero, not blacks, because there aren’t enough of them to overcome the white vote should whites decide to vote as a racial bloc the way that blacks do.

This last year has been a moment in time that will never come again, and zero blew it. Had he reached for excellence and equality, celebrated America, taken a positive view instead of choosing corruption and cynicism, he would be a great man. Instead, he has shown the evil face of corruption, deceit, racism, and broad, historically anti-American policies, ideologies and a framework for utter destruction of this country as we know it and as it was founded.

He is a menace to society in every respect, yet blacks celebrate him because of his skin color and only his skin color. Like other black pols, he used them for their race-based votes and then did nothing for them or anybody else except the unions and related commie subversives who are now running rampant throughout the country.


35 posted on 11/25/2009 3:16:53 AM PST by bustinchops (Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
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To: streetpreacher

nope


36 posted on 11/25/2009 10:09:11 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: bustinchops

al sharpton is right on one point. barry has never had the segregated-black experience. he has lived a privileged life and is trying, like many of his generation, the older generation and the younger generation, to act as if it is still 1968.

i’m jobless, not by desire. where is my “white privilege”?

phooey!


37 posted on 11/25/2009 10:19:31 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: SES1066
Paging Rev. Jesse to the white courtesy phone please.

You silly...don't you know that he would never answer a "white" courtesy phone....

38 posted on 11/25/2009 10:33:18 AM PST by Mopp4
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To: Mopp4
You silly...don't you know that he would never answer a "white" courtesy phone....

Ah, but grasshopper, you didn't read the very next message (#10) where I corrected it my own self to "dark tan".

Paging Rev. Jesse to the white courtesy phone please.
Oops, make that the dark tan courtesy phone.

39 posted on 11/25/2009 10:51:07 AM PST by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: SES1066
Ah, but grasshopper, you didn't read the very next message (#10) where I corrected it my own self to "dark tan"

LOL...allow me to stand corrected...you are wiser than first observed....

:-)

40 posted on 11/25/2009 11:35:57 AM PST by Mopp4
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