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A journey one officer will never forget.
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I predict a lot of dust in the air by February. Heck, it’s barely the new year and it’s already plenty dusty in my computer room.
Having buried a PFC to a 3 Star during funeral Detail at Campbell…..I know the feeling. But it is not as bad as watching a friend bleed out. That is what keeps me awake at night.
Serinity on in 10 min
I almost started crying-and I’m aspie.
Wow, certainly a must see… Being a former Canuck zoomie, I had to stand still, along with the padre, and watch the base commander give the news to a widow, right there on her doorstep… It was the most heart-wrenching duty I ever had to perform. Twice, but way too many times, way too many….
Tryng to typ through th felingss.
This is one of many movies that are suppose to be coming out this year about this war that are not based on everything we did was wrong, but that there was a cause.
Hollywierd tried to paint the ugly side of war and focus on us as being the cause of all wrongs. It didn’t work. Now they seem to be trying the other side.
Do I believe them and should I give them my money?
I will buy that DVD when it comes out (and a few extra for friends).
OilMan, I’d wait ’til the DVD comes out. If Whollyweird turned out a positive Long War movie, it’s only because they’re trying to set up Negrodamus to take the credit for the success… Only since he “won”, has any news been positive.
Wait for the DVD, and you’ll limit how much those assholes can collect for it. I think it’s a “Must See” based on Lt. Col. Strobl’s comments in the “Greenlite” segment. “90-95% of it is the way it actually happened…”
And a note to Kevin Bacon…. Keep yer fuckin’ mouth shut about yer politics. I REALLY wanna enjoy this movie.
What I can’t belive is that Bacon agreed to do this. Did someone hit him with a cluebat?
What are Bacon’s politics?
(I’ve got an idea)
Hardclimber sez:
There are worse things. It was a September afternoon in 1984. I had graduated from USAF Navigator School, and was waiting my start date for Electronic Warfare School. I was the “Duty Dog”, the Duty officer in the 451st Flying Training Squadron that day. A call comes in from the Wing Commander to the Squadron Commander: I patch it through.
A minute later, the Colonel sticks his head out the door, and asks me who was on casual and had graduated with 84-14. I replied that I had. He told me to call for relief, run back to my quarters, change to Dress Blues, and be back in 20 minutes.
On the ride to the housing area, I found out it was Rusty. Whose wedding I was an usher at 3 weeks before. Who, ten days prior, I had helped move him and his hometown bride into married quarters on base, with 3-4 other classmates. And who had just gone off to C-130 School in Little Rock, Arkansas. . .
And whose wife was so new to military life, she didn’t know what it meant when the Wing Commander and an entourage comes knocking at your door in full dress blue. . .
I’ve done several Casualty Notifications, but that one was by FAR the roughest. . .
LC Draco @:#2 Thanks for serving-i’m sorry for your friend
mindy1 sez:
I second that.
annoyinglittletwerp sez:
Not much I can add, except to third that…
…and 4th’ ed.
This brought back some memories. I escorted the remains of my team leader home to his family in 2006.
add a “fifth that” from this ol retired Squid. (who had the honor of being bugler on more then one occasion).
I don’t know how I could handle burial or notification detail. While in High School I played taps for the local VFW while they did burials, in peace time, for guys that had lived a full life and expired of natural causes, that choked me up every time. It also cemented my respect for those that have served. Last week I saw they have a young lad, did’nt even look old enough to drive playing for them, I had to smile knowing he is getting treated to the same education I got.
Thank you for your service, sir.
Premiers on HBO on 21 Feb 2009…
So at least if you already have HBO, no additional money for the lefties!
yeah, the trailer made me cry. Anyone got a fucking problem with that?
On a side note, I ride with the PGR. Thankfully, we’re not pulling as many missions as we used to.
Roguetek,
There’s a ‘50 panhead ‘waiting for some chrome and a hydraglide front end downstairs.
When it’s back up, I gotta hook up with you folks.
I know, I ride drag, understood,, oil-spew and all..
cheapshot, we’ll take anyone who can ride,drive, run, walk, crawl, or twitch.
http://www.patriotguard.org
Hell, I dont even thing you have to be -alive- to ride with us. I heard a rumor about a guy who takes his father’s urn with him. no proof, but I dont think anyone would care….
LC Roguetek sez:
My personal thanks for being a PGR member sir, you guys did a standout job at a funeral I attended up here for a young Marine a few years back. and yes, I hope you continue to get less busy……
Pass along my thanks to your fellow riders, I salute them every time I see them on the road.
LC Roguetek stated
My hat is off to you guys…at a local funeral here near Houston for a local Marine, there were more bikes than cars. Was an awesome sight!!
This is (I think) about a Marine named Chance who was from Dubois, WY. From a family of service men. I don’t believe the family would allow an anti war flick to be made in memory of their brave son.
made a grown man cry here.. twice.
Thanks for the props guys, but I/we don’t really do anything special that -you- could not. we just happen to look cool when doing it.
but get hooked into the PGR pipeline, we share mission data, and unless you’re a total fucking -tool-, you’re welcome to come to.
I was a flight surgeon for eight years, half of it Carrier Air. I was spared this particular duty. There are good things to shed tears for,this is chief among them.
Thank You,,,
Brian, RET MIL
There were so many lost in WW II that all a wife or mother got was a telegram with a black border.
My mother received one of those.
As terrible as each and every loss is, we are suffering so few in comparison to past wars. The respectful treatment of those fallen and those who mourn them is so much more humane and fitting.
Honor to the Fallen.
Compassion for their families.
Death to our enemies, foreign and domestic!
Thank you Misha for linking this. I never pay attention to the drivel on the television, but this one will find me in front of the tube.
Sure appreciate your making us aware of it.
This looks like a decent movie, if one can judge that from a trailer.
I cannot, however, see Kevin Bacon (in uniform) as anything but the ROTC cadet in Animal House, shouting “remain calm, all is well.”
too choked up to even swallow a beer. God Bless all of the service men and women. Past, Present, and Future.
In 26 years I did a couple of escorts, and a group of us were there to render honors to the Blackhawk crew that went down in theater shortly after 9/11. My uncle also had a full honors funeral at Arlington I was lucky enough to get home in time for. It’s moving to watch, and gut wrenching to do.
Heard some coverage on the movie this past weekend, and Bacon commented that he didn’t realize someone was assigned to the process from beginning to end, and that made me wonder how many others out there aren’t aware of the honors the military shows those that give the ultimate sacrifice. If only one person that watches this program “gets” it, it’s worth the time and effort.
BigDogg @:
Bacon was also the prosecuting atty in A Few Good Men, my wife said he looked good in that uniform,
ohio right wing nut sez:
Again … when seeing him in that movie, all I could think of was “remain calm, all is well.”
“On a side note, I ride with the PGR…” – Roguetek
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I was in Chapel Hill in November 2006, visiting my alma mater, walking Franklin St., when I passed Walker’s funeral home. I saw two cop cars parked in the middle of the road and wondered why they were there, but when I looked deep into the driveway of the funeral home, I saw a biker with a PGR patch. My heart sank.
Because I don’t get all my news from the MSM, I knew what that meant. I vowed I would come back to show respect, but first I had to make an appointment.
I’m a fast walker, and I soon overtook a young son asking his father why there were police at the funeral home in which bikers attended. The father explained that sometimes the police raid funerals to get the buddies. I don’t usually do this, but I corrected him; I told him those were Patriot Guard Riders, and their presence there could only have meant that a soldier (or Marine or…) had fallen, and they had come, often from long distance, to make sure he’d properly be respected on his way home.
Well, when the father heard this he began apologizing profusely. I told him not to apologize to me, but instead to the PGR, or the fallen soldier, even though it’s reasonable, given the coverage, he had no way of accurately knowing what was happening.
I just wanted you to know that your actions have not only made me more aware, but they’ve now taught a father and his son to look for the signs. And maybe, as I did, they’ll walk back to the funeral home in the future, stand on the corner in the rain, and solemnly stand by while the procession runs its course.
That soldier, I came to realize while doing a search once back in Washington, D.C., was Staff Sgt. Misael Martinez. He died (with two others), on Nov. 11, 2006, in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, of injuries suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations. They were assigned to the 16th Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, Giessen, Germany.
Killed were:
Staff Sgt. William S. Jackson II, 29, of Saginaw, Mich.
Staff Sgt. Misael Martinez, 24, of Chapel Hill, N.C.
Sgt. Angel De Jesus Lucio Ramirez, 22, of Pacoima, Calif.
UPDATE:
The actual story, as written by Lt Col Straub, is up at Blackfive. Actually, it’s been up almost 4 years. . . .
And I’m **still** crying, 10 minutes after reading it. . . .