Veteran's Day - Thanks to all the brave women and men who have served our country.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Mary McHugh mourns her fiancé, Sgt. James Regan, at Section 60 in Arlington National Cemetary. Sgt. Regan, an Army Ranger, was killed when his patrol vehicle was blown up by a bomb in Baghdad.

Normandy

Soldiers of the 16th Infantry Regiment, wounded while storming Omaha Beach, wait by the chalk cliffs for evacuation to a field hospital for treatment, D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Korea

A grief stricken American infantryman whose buddy has been killed in action is comforted by another soldier. In the background a corpsman methodically fills out casualty tags, Haktong-ni area, Korea. August 28, 1950. Sfc. Al Chang.

Vietnam

Left: In this June 17, 1967 file photo, medic James E. Callahan of Pittsfield, Mass., treats a U.S. infantryman who suffered a head wound when a Viet Cong bullet pierced his helmet during a three-hour battle in war zone D, about 50 miles northeast of Saigon. Right: In this January 1966 file photo, First Cavalry Division medic Thomas Cole, from Richmond, Va., looks up with one uncovered eye as he treats a wounded Staff Sgt. Harrison Pell during a firefight in the Central Highlands in Vietnam, between U.S. troops and a combined North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces. AP| Henri Huet

Iraq

Marine Staff Sgt. John Jones. SSgt John P. Jones was serving in Iraq with the 1st Battalion/ 7th Marines when he was severely injured on January 3, 2005. John was in the 7th vehicle of a 35-vehicle convoy when it hit a double-stacked anti-tank mine. The mine that exploded under his hummer launched him 25 feet through the top of the vehicle.

Afganistan

Cpl. Pat Tillman, left, and his brother Kevin. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Tillman left a lucrative career as an NFL football player to enlist in the U.S. Army. Tillman was killed in action on April 22, 2004 near Sperah, Afghanistan.

Comments

[ninboydean.livejournal.com]

Right, I confused nations but not incidents:

http://www.truth-out.org/second-soldier-alleges-former-tillman-commander-ordered-360-rotational-fire-iraq63153 (http://www.truth-out.org/second-soldier-alleges-former-tillman-commander-ordered-360-rotational-fire-iraq63153)

[udoswald.livejournal.com]

While I'm as liberal as anyone, I wouldn't always believe what you see on truth-out any more than I'd believe what I see on WorldNutDaily without corroboration from other sources.

Also, just because he was ordered by his commanding officer to do something wrong (Corporals don't get to overrule officers) doesn't mean his death was a good thing. He was still a human being and an American and his family mourned just as much as anyone's. Opposing the war doesn't mean celebrating the deaths of American soliders (regardless of how they died and who killed them).

Besides, since he did eventually die in a friendly fire incident and his death was covered up by the Pentagon that makes him every bit as much of a victim of this war as any other person. He didn't ask to be put in that situation.