To: redfish who wrote (35781 ) 3/21/2004 2:07:00 AM From: Rollcast... Respond to of 793625 Redfish, You prove thru your posts the depravity of your mind and your party. I once had hope that this was simply a misimpression but no longer..... Your post below is an example of the level of your depravity (or maybe it's just ignorance)Message 19932310 No it is for the families of the dead and wounded US soldiers to decide. I would like to see a republican chickenhawk explain to the family of a dead or maimed soldier why the war was "worth it" on account of freeing the Iraqi people. I imagine he would get the s**t kicked out of him in short order, which is as it should be. suntimes.com Obviously, you know not a single family or even know a single person serving.... Yet make a statement like that. ************************************************ Marine's goodbye letter helps his father cope March 20, 2004 BY DON BABWIN It's a letter any parent would dread. ''Well if you are reading this, then things didn't go well for me over in Iraq,'' it begins. Marine Capt. Ryan Beaupre sent the letter to his parents, back home in the small, Kankakee-area farmland town of St. Anne, last March. It was written 10 days before he was killed when the helicopter he was helping to pilot crashed in Kuwait on the second day of the war. Beaupre was 30. ''Realize that I died doing something that I truly love," the pilot wrote, "and for a purpose greater than myself." Mark Beaupre knows there are no words to adequately explain his pain. But his son found the words to help him cope with it.''What Ryan died for, what people in World War II or the Revolutionary War or the Civil War died for, [is] to try and help attain peace,'' he said. ********************************************************** Fish, you claim to live in the Tampa area? There are numerous military facilities there - why dont you offer to take some guys out for reds and enlighten youreslf to their experiences before you pass judgement on their losses. Even better, why not intimate (if you have the spine) that the removal of the Husseins was not worth it and the US GI deaths there were a waste.... I wonder how Reds bite on human cut bait... ;) BTW, c'est la vie...