Arrest warrant will be served, Husband made up the story, police say

The Sunday Republican ^ | Sunday, February 15, 2004 | By Robyn Adams

[DumpsterDiver]

What is a Republican-American reporter?

I think that Republican-American is the name of the reporter's newspaper.

[flim-flam]

I'm wondering how his wife is handling all this. No doubt, she has her hands full in Iraq, while her wacko husband makes front page news in CT with this bizarre story.

[Erasmus]

Years ago, the National Lampoon put out an entire Sunday Newspaper for the town of "Dacron, Ohio."

It was the Dacron Republican-Democrat.

...

Hyphenated newspaper names are the results of mergers, and they can end up sounding almost as goofy as Dacron's paper.

Merged bank names are even goofier, like Indiana's 'American Fletcher National Bank.' I always thought that it was for patriotic archers.

The the Firesign Theater's 'Chemical Corn Exchange.'

"I went down to the Chemical Corn Exchange bank. I gave them some corn, and they gave me some chemicals."

[Archangelsk]

Because sometimes people are stupid.

[flim-flam]

Off the top of my head, I'm not exactly sure who owns the paper, but their editorial board is conservative.

[Lauratealeaf]

"What is a Republican-American reporter?"

Obviously, some sort of mutant.

LOL! Yes, I knew that it was the name of the paper after I re-read it but couldn't resist posting the question.

[Hildy]

OH MY! I didn't understand it to be a name of the paper! That's funny, and a bit sad that we would think that would be the way the reporter identified someone...too funny.

[archy]

For the record, the military has a formal procedure for casualty notification. In the case of soldiers who are killed or missing, this process always requires an officer senior to the casualty, usually accompanied by a chaplain and sometimes a physician, to physically go to the next of kin and inform him or her personally. The procedure varies slightly from service to service.

It's the worst duty you can draw, but it's taken very seriously.

That routine S.O.P. sometimes gets overwhelmed though, as when the 101st Airborne at Ft Campbell lost a chartered aircraft full of troopers returning from Middle East peacekeeping duties right at Christmastime in December of 1985. Army recruiters, NCOs, Red Cross personnel and State Troopers became parts of the casualty notification details for the two hundred and forty-eight families who got bitter tears for their Christmas that year, though so far as I know, all had at least one official U.S. Army officer tasked with the official duty of delivering the brital and tragic news.

I don't think any of the others who gave their assistance in getting that awful job done found it any better than the army personnel so tasked, but their assistance in helping locate homes and family members in rural or wide-spread corners of some Kentucky and Souuthern Indiana counties was invaluable. And the effects on those who draw that duty and their own families over an immediately following holiday season is not too hard to figure out either.

[archy]

OH MY! I didn't understand it to be a name of the paper! That's funny, and a bit sad that we would think that would be the way the reporter identified someone...too funny.

Some great misunderstandings also arose over the names of the old Memphis Press-Scimitar, now sadly defunct, and the Bloomington, Indiana Herald-Telephone, since renamed via merger.