[Peace-discuss] Obama is a pig

[C. G. Estabrook]

Sorry.  You're right.  Wretchedly unfair to pigs.

Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon killed contemporaries of mine

-- and about four million other people.

Now Bush-Obama are killing the children of my contemporaries

-- and a million or so others.

Pigs (pace Orwell) are not so vicious.


E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> Carl!
> 
> Take that back, sir!
> 
> You must not so abuse the pigs with your careless words!
> 
> Wayne.
> 
> ps:
> 
> They seem to use real bullets, just as one fellow noted on Omaha beach... 
> Real bullets.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/18/2009 9:18 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> Mother's final duty to soldier son -- escort his body home
>> 
>> Spc. Stephan Mace was one of eight who died in October 3 battle in 
>> Afghanistan Vanessa Adelson: "It was my responsibility as a mother to bring
>>  him home" Residents of Purcellville, Virginia, join Adelson in mourning 
>> loss of Mace Mace gave his St. Christopher medal to fellow soldiers before 
>> he died
>> 
>> By Rachel Streitfeld CNN
>> 
>> PURCELLVILLE, Virginia (CNN) -- When the Army flew home the body of Spc. 
>> Stephan Mace from Afghanistan, his mother climbed aboard a small jet with 
>> the flag-draped coffin for the last leg of his trip.
>> 
>> Vanessa Adelson would not let her 21-year-old son make his final journey 
>> home alone.
>> 
>> "I brought him into this world, and he was my baby," she said. "I thought 
>> it was my responsibility as a mother to bring him home."
>> 
>> Mace and seven other soldiers were killed this month in a Taliban attack on
>>  their remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan, making it the deadliest
>> battle for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since July 2008.
>> 
>> All eight were assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th 
>> Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, based at Fort Carson, Colorado.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The October 3 battle saw Taliban insurgents at one point surging past the 
>> outer perimeter of Forward Operating Base Keating in Afghanistan's Kamdesh 
>> District. The battle lasted about 12 hours, with the most ferocious 
>> fighting raging for about seven hours.
>> 
>> The base, in a valley, is surrounded by ridge lines where the insurgents 
>> were able to fire down at U.S. and Afghan troops. The facility had been 
>> scheduled to be closed within days, CNN later learned.
>> 
>> Three days after the deadly fight, Mace's mother attended the Dignified 
>> Transfer of her son, then returned home with him from Dover Air Force Base 
>> in Delaware.
>> 
>> Since May, Mace had been on his first deployment in Afghanistan, following 
>> a childhood dream of joining the Army. He planned to continue his career in
>>  service after his Army stint by joining the Department of Homeland
>> Security or the CIA, his mother said.
>> 
>> Instead, he will be buried Monday in Arlington National Cemetery.
>> 
>> Back in Mace's small, tight-knit community in Purcellville, Virginia, many 
>> found it hard to believe the solemn military procession through the center 
>> of town earlier this month was the last they would ever see of their 
>> friend.
>> 
>> "If I could describe Stephan, I would picture him flying through the air on
>>  a dirt bike living his life on the edge," said Sam Chapman, childhood 
>> friend and football buddy. "If more people in this country had the passion 
>> and the determination and the courage that Stephan had, it would without a 
>> doubt be a better place. He was just a great guy."
>> 
>> Mace, described as a Moto Cross champion, football player, hunter and all 
>> around fun-loving, loyal friend, was the kind of child that coaches and 
>> teachers remember. And when his body was brought back to Purcellville, the 
>> community turned out in support. Hundreds of people lined the streets, 
>> saluting and waving flags as Mace's family brought him home.
>> 
>> "It was great to the see the kids and the families stand there and when the
>>  motorcade crossed the crest of the hill [into town] it was just
>> silence.... It was holy," said Purcellville Mayor Robert Lazaro. "I think
>> we wanted to say to the Mace family, 'Thank you. We respect what your son
>> has done for us.' "
>> 
>> Mace was awarded six medals for his service, including a Bronze Star and a 
>> Purple Heart. But for his mother, the most precious is the medal of St. 
>> Christopher, the patron saint of travelers, that her son wore into battle.
>> 
>> She gave him the medal when he was 15 and preparing for a trip to South 
>> Africa. Now, after speaking to one of Mace's friends who survived the 
>> outpost attack, Adelson knows her son reached for that medal in his last 
>> moments. She was told that in his last moments alive, Mace took off his 
>> medal and gave it to his fellow soldiers.
>> 
>> "That's how Stephan was," Adelson said. "Here this kid is dying, and he was
>>  more worried about the other soldiers that he took his St. Christopher off
>>  and gave it to them."
>> 
>> She has also learned her son lived for about half an hour after sustaining 
>> wounds to the chest and leg. Adelson finds this detail comforting.
>> 
>> "I'm glad Stephan didn't die right away because he was allowed to give that
>>  one gift to his unit and give them the St. Christopher and that he also
>> was able to feel God come to him and take him away," she said. "That he was
>>  able to ponder and have a last chance, a last moment, to think about his 
>> family and have God take him."
>> 
>> http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/18/mother.soldier.return/index.html