Bush is a fucked up asshole who ruins lives (so are the rest of them)
The Times has a totally heartbreaking story about the funeral in Queens of Sgt. Jose Gomez; his mother, who has no rose-tinted ideas about what her kid died for, what he should've gotten out of the army, and what Bush gave him instead; and their priest.
His death came 31 months after his fiancée, Analaura Esparza-Gutierrez, 21, an Army private from Houston, was also killed by a roadside bombing in Tikrit, Iraq. Three springs ago, Sergeant Gomez had proposed to her. Now both were gone.Bush: this is what's known as compassion. Nice that the means for people without money to get a degree has become instead the means for people without money to go halfway around the world and be blown the hell up by roadside bombs. WHEN ARE WE IMPEACHING, PEOPLE????
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"We're poor," Mrs. Gomez had said. She works packaging air fresheners in a factory, and her husband, Mr. Jimenez, is a truck driver. "And if you go in the Army to get your degree, well that used to work out."
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Mrs. Gomez was supported to the side of the coffin.
"Mi Jose! Mi Jose! Mi hijo!" she wailed. "O Dios!"
She sobbed, and added, moaning in Spanish, "Why did it have to be my son?"
At the church, Father Healy said he was concerned about Mrs. Gomez. He stood near the altar, below a statue of the Virgin of Sorrow.
"Twenty-five hundred of these around the country," he said. "Can you imagine?"
posted by azulita at 11:41 AM
2 Comments:
It's clear that this family has suffered a horrible, horrible tragedy. Your reaction, however is absolutely ridiculous.
You may not agree with the fact that we are involved militarily in the Middle East, and you are entitled to that opinion. I frankly am not sure I know why we are there, either. Those feelings aside, our troops ARE there.
Your reference to the military as a "means for people without money to get a degree" is what I find offensive. The military is for the domestic and foreign protection of our country and its interests, NOT a free ride to an education. I am quite certain that ALL enlisted people understand this. Scholariships, Grants and loans are in place to help those who are financially disadvantaged and their distribution is weighted toward those with lower income. So, if you don't want to possibly risk your life, don't join the military as a means to an education.
Your attempt to exploit this family's tragedy is disgusting. If you do not like our president and leadership in the country, then speak out, and vote as you are entitled to do. However, next time you want to lambaste the President, try doing it with a SOUND argument and not by stomping on the emotional hardships of a hero's family. -BM
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