saluting those who serve
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According to the calendar of events posted by the Presidential Inauguration Committee, today will see a tribute at the MCI Center in Washington DC called ‘Saluting Those Who Serve’. This should be a moving occasion.
"Do you recall that touching moment when George Bush attended the funeral of one of the many soldiers sent to die in Iraq? When the President made that symbolic gesture that meant so much to the family that had sacrificed so much for America? And how the symbolism meant so much to all the others whose families were split forever by war? That moment when the President showed once and for all that he felt the pain of the sacrifice he was asking of America?
You may be having a little trouble remembering it, because it never happened. George Bush, the 'wartime President' could find time to take 170 days of vacation AFTER 9-11 but didn't have time in his schedule to visit a single soldiers funeral." (
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/14/150821.php)
Since April 2004, Bush has supported a ban on photos of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq. According to the Pentagon, "In all of this, we must pay attention to the privacy and to the sensitivity of the families of the fallen, and that's what the policy is based on and that has to be the utmost concern."
Last Thursday however, the families of the fallen spoke loudly and rejected this lie.
"A US National Guard unit has defied a Pentagon request that sought to stop television news crews filming six flag-draped soldiers' coffins arriving in Louisiana.
The Pentagon has barred US media from filming the coffins of US service members arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
But the Louisiana National Guard allowed a CBS news crew on Wednesday to film the arrival of six soldiers' coffins at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse, near New Orleans, Louisiana.
Despite the Pentagon request, Lieutenant-Colonel Pete Schneider, a spokesman for the Louisiana National Guard told CBS: "What we thought was, we're going to do what the family asked us to do."
Bush will be inaugurated as the 55th President of the United States on Thursday in a ceremony at which "The military will render a 21-gun salute, the Army Herald Trumpets will play "Four Ruffles and Flourishes" and the U.S. Marine Band will play 'Hail to the Chief'". Parody.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/00E1EA83-3FDD-4284-BE10-25648D94C086.htm
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BDFE7D46-42C2-4819-8ADD-C0BF1FCA2108.htm
You may be having a little trouble remembering it, because it never happened. George Bush, the 'wartime President' could find time to take 170 days of vacation AFTER 9-11 but didn't have time in his schedule to visit a single soldiers funeral." (
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/14/150821.php) Since April 2004, Bush has supported a ban on photos of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq. According to the Pentagon, "In all of this, we must pay attention to the privacy and to the sensitivity of the families of the fallen, and that's what the policy is based on and that has to be the utmost concern."
Last Thursday however, the families of the fallen spoke loudly and rejected this lie.
"A US National Guard unit has defied a Pentagon request that sought to stop television news crews filming six flag-draped soldiers' coffins arriving in Louisiana.
The Pentagon has barred US media from filming the coffins of US service members arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
But the Louisiana National Guard allowed a CBS news crew on Wednesday to film the arrival of six soldiers' coffins at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse, near New Orleans, Louisiana.
Despite the Pentagon request, Lieutenant-Colonel Pete Schneider, a spokesman for the Louisiana National Guard told CBS: "What we thought was, we're going to do what the family asked us to do."
Bush will be inaugurated as the 55th President of the United States on Thursday in a ceremony at which "The military will render a 21-gun salute, the Army Herald Trumpets will play "Four Ruffles and Flourishes" and the U.S. Marine Band will play 'Hail to the Chief'". Parody.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/00E1EA83-3FDD-4284-BE10-25648D94C086.htm http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BDFE7D46-42C2-4819-8ADD-C0BF1FCA2108.htm
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