Tell me if you want on.
Posted on 05/29/2006 7:28:48 PM PDT by Purple GOPer
Remarks delivered on Saturday evening in Arlington, Virginia, at the Memorial Day weekend seminar and grief camp of TAPS -- the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors.
THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME be a part of your family. This is the most important family on the planet right now. There is a First Family on Pennsylvania Avenue, but this is the real first family. The family of those who have paid the ultimate price to keep us free and dignified and alive.
A bad day for me is when I get stuck in traffic or have a toothache or notice that I have gained weight or my teenage son is surly.
A bad day for you is realizing that the only man or woman you have ever loved is gone for this lifetime.
A difficult day for me with my wife is when she's out at her bridge lesson and comes home late so my dinner is late.
A difficult day for you is when you wake up from a dream that your husband or wife or son or daughter or mother or father was alive and laughing with you and realize you'll never see that loveable person again for the rest of your natural lives.
A bad day for an ordinary American is seeing the stock market go down or watching his son sneak a beer.
~snip~
Yet your loneliness has meaning. Your loneliness, your pain, is the mortar and concrete that anchors the nation. The sacrifice your loved ones made, the sacrifice you made, that your kids made, is what makes the whole American world safe from terror.
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Tell me if you want on.
Your wording is redundant....
They're wrong and they say what they say because they don't see the truth. They print a story on the front page about Marines killing civilians in a town in Iraq and if they did, it was wrong. But the big media never report a MARINE throwing himself on a bomb to protect an Iraqi child, or a Marine giving his life to rid a town of murderers or a Marine or an Army man or woman or a Navy Seal or a Coast Guardsman offering up his life so that Iraqi human beings can have the same freedoms and rights we take for granted here in America.
The media are like grave robbers, robbing you of the certain knowledge that your spouses gave their lives for something deeply worthwhile: human dignity.
And the media like to criticize because they know -- in their hearts -- that they will never have the guts that the man and woman in uniform have. I think media envy of your loved ones' courage has a lot do with media mockery of the war.
Fantastic! I think he speaks for a lot of us.
add me to the ping list, please...this is a great guy.
Ping to a must read....
Bump for excellence.
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Put me on that list!
Ben Stein BUMP. I've nothing but respect for him!
a must read....Indeed!
Thanks for the ping!
Are you Ben Stein?
I can't believe there is enough news to warrant a ping list, but I wouldn't mind being on it. (That's why I wonder if you are actually Ben Stein.....)
http://www.benstein.com/writing.html
Ben Stein has actually been writing for a LONG time, and he is usually right on target...
you can e-mail him at
benstein@aol.com and he actually reponds....
"Another great Ben Stein article"
Can someone give an example? Gore, ....Gore......, Kerry, .....Kerry...... Buehler?
(Sorry, but I really do wonder if famous people might lurk here...)
I am John Francois Kerry...
"Don't you know who I am"?????
Please add me to your ping list as well!
Please add me to the list.
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