The Saddest Photo on Yahoo for Me Today....

[leftchick]

Sheyla Randazzo cries as she places a flower on the casket of her brother, Marine Sgt. Julian Arechaga, who was killed in action eariler this month while serving in Iraq, during a burial service at Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale, N.Y. Saturday, Oct. 21, 2006. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)

:cry:

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/1479/im:/061021/480/3dc1e9a90a454da2bf48e6d65314cd65

On Edit: Damn, make that the two saddest...




Julian Arechaga kneels at the casket of his son, Marine Sgt. Julian Arechaga, who was killed in action eariler this month while serving in Iraq, during a burial service at Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale, N.Y. Saturday, Oct. 21, 2006. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)

[malaise]

1. Too sad

but Bushco doesn't care.

[SeattleGirl]

2. What a gut wrenching picture.

:cry:

[patrice]

3. They will never stop crying. None of us will.

There isn't anything that can ever put it right.

It just doesn't go away like that. It shouldn't!

Rather than allow it to destroy us, all of us must learn to live constructively with this Grief.

[Hav]

4. .

I suppose these are also pictures Bush wouldn't want to see in the news.
It's really sad, they are so devastated and hurt. And I'm also sure that they are asking themselves what he was dying for.

[Billy Burnett]

5. Story here. He re-enlisted last month for a 3rd tour.

(Sorry to say this but....) I guess he just loved the killin'. A "zealous military man".


Marine killed on third tour
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lisold11q4927987oct11,0,159927.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

One by one, Sgt. Julian Arechaga's buddies, all dedicated Marines, were being called back for duty in Iraq, so the 23-year-old Baldwin native re-enlisted last month, starting his third tour in battle and second tour in war-torn Iraq.

His four-year career as a zealous military man who deeply loved his profession came to an end Sunday when an improvised explosive device struck his Humvee, killing him.

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"He was very serious and very dedicated to his job," said Sheyla Randazzo, a sister who helped raise Arechaga in Baldwin. "He loved it."

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Randazzo said her brother's love for military life was clear: As soon as he graduated from Oceanside in the summer of 2002, he went to the U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office on Hempstead Turnpike in Hempstead.

He was off to boot camp that September.

"He went to boot camp and it was tough, but he liked it," Randazzo said. "He was very into it and happy and proud that he got through it."

His four-year career took him to Iraq twice and to Afghanistan.

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"He liked being in the military more than anything," Randazzo said.

[leftchick]

8. well I guess that pretty much says it all

though I will never understand it. :(

[patrice]

11. War IS a force that gives us meaning.

I know C. Hitchens is kind of crazy, but he is right in this aphorism.

Meaning = motivation. Churches offer little more than artificial meaning. Our culture is anti-thetical to meaning. Individuals don't know or can't create meaning for themselves. That problem is solved by the military and the bio-chemical effects of Danger. It's not a meaning that I would choose, but it does work.

I would prefer to address the problems in how we live that di$$olve meaning into nothing but the rat race.

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. C. Hitchens didn't write that book

Chris Hedges did. I saw him speak. Trust me. Totally different guy. :-)

[patrice]

15. Right! - Thanks, I knew that, was just being sloppy - Sorry.

[Union Thug]

18. War gives us meaning...if you are an idiot.

War does nothing for me but make me hate the assholes who start them. I'm not sure where they unearth these vestigial remnents of the Volsung saga, but anyone with a brain hates war and refuses it any meaning beyond it's primary purpose - to uphold a social system that enriches a very few at the expense of others.

[patrice]

20. I agree with you, but I believe you have to begin with people wherever

it is that they are, i.e. what their meanings are, even if I can't agree, I can at least validate that it IS theirs. If I can't do that, I don't know what else is possible.

I guess I'm really pretty subversive; start with whatever I can, and by step-wise approximations, move toward a mutually valued goal. I just don't want to shut these good people out because they are mistaken in what they think things mean.

[Union Thug]

25. You are so much more patient than I am! n/t

[knitter4democracy]

22. He probably would've been stop-lossed anyway.

He wasn't in long enough to avoid that. This way, he could make sure he was with his buddies.

[seemslikeadream]

6. I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong'

2506 "I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' Dick Morris, 4/9/03
Tue Jun 20th 2006, 03:59 PM
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seemslikeadream/109


"Tommy Franks and the coalition forces have demonstrated the old axiom
that boldness on the battlefield produces swift and relatively
bloodless victory. The three-week swing through Iraq has utterly
shattered skeptics' complaints." (Fox News Channel's Tony Snow,
4/27/03)



"The only people who think this wasn't a victory are Upper Westside
liberals, and a few people here in Washington." (Charles Krauthammer,
Inside Washington, WUSA-TV, 4/19/03)



"I will bet you the best dinner in the gaslight district of San Diego
that military action will not last more than a week. Are you willing to
take that wager?" (Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, 1/29/03)



"What's he going to talk about a year from now, the fact that the war
went too well and it's over? I mean, don't these things sort of lose
their--Isn't there a fresh date on some of these debate points?"
(MSNBC's Chris Matthews, speaking about Howard Dean--4/9/03)



"It is amazing how thorough the victory in Iraq really was in the
broadest context..... And the silence, I think, is that it's clear that
nobody can do anything about it. There isn't anybody who can stop him.
The Democrats can't oppose--cannot oppose him politically."
(Washington Post reporter Jeff Birnbaum-- Fox News Channel, 5/2/03)



"Now that the war in Iraq is all but over, should the people in
Hollywood who opposed the president admit they were wrong?"
(Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes, 4/25/03)



"I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' from some of the world's
most elite journalists, politicians and Hollywood types.... I just
wonder, who's going to be the first elitist to show the character to
say: 'Hey, America, guess what? I was wrong'? Maybe the White House
will get an apology, first, from the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. Now,
Ms. Dowd mocked the morality of this war....

"Do you all remember Scott Ritter, you know, the former chief U.N.
weapons inspector who played chief stooge for Saddam Hussein? Well, Mr.
Ritter actually told a French radio network that -- quote, "The United
States is going to leave Baghdad with its tail between its legs,
defeated." Sorry, Scott. I think you've been chasing the wrong tail,
again.

"Over the next couple of weeks when we find the chemical weapons this
guy was amassing, the fact that this war was attacked by the left and
so the right was so vindicated, I think, really means that the left is
going to have to hang its head for three or four more years."
(Fox News Channel's Dick Morris, 4/9/03)



"This has been a tough war for commentators on the American left. To
hope for defeat meant cheering for Saddam Hussein. To hope for victory
meant cheering for President Bush. The toppling of Mr. Hussein, or at
least a statue of him, has made their arguments even harder to defend.
Liberal writers for ideologically driven magazines like The Nation and
for less overtly political ones like The New Yorker did not predict a
defeat, but the terrible consequences many warned of have not happened.
Now liberal commentators must address the victory at hand and confront
an ascendant conservative juggernaut that asserts United States might
can set the world right."
(New York Times reporter David Carr, 4/16/03)



"Well, the hot story of the week is victory.... The Tommy Franks-Don
Rumsfeld battle plan, war plan, worked brilliantly, a three-week war
with mercifully few American deaths or Iraqi civilian deaths.... There
is a lot of work yet to do, but all the naysayers have been humiliated
so far.... The final word on this is, hooray."
(Fox News Channel's Morton Kondracke, 4/12/03)



"Shouldn't the prime minister and all of us who thought the
war was hasty and dangerous and wrongheaded admit that we were wrong? I
mean, with the pictures of those Iraqis dancing in the streets, hauling
down statues of Saddam Hussein and gushing their thanks to the
Americans, isn't it clear that President Bush and Britain's Tony Blair
were right all along? If we believe it's a good thing that Hussein's
regime has been dismantled, aren't we hypocritical not to acknowledge
Bush's superior judgment?... Why can't those of us who thought the war
was a bad idea (or, at any rate, a premature one) let it go now and
just join in celebrating the victory wrought by our magnificent
military forces?"
(Washington Post's William Raspberry, 4/14/03)



"This will be no war -- there will be a fairly brief and ruthless
military intervention.... The president will give an order. attack] will be rapid, accurate and dazzling.... It will be greeted by
the majority of the Iraqi people as an emancipation. And I say, bring
it on."
(Christopher Hitchens, in a 1/28/03 debate-- cited in the Observer,
3/30/03)



"Speaking to the U.N. Security Council last week, Secretary of State
Colin Powell made so strong a case that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein
is in material breach of U.N. resolutions that only the duped, the dumb
and the desperate could ignore it."
(Cal Thomas, syndicated column, 2/12/03)




Until the philosophy,
Which holds one race superior
And another inferior,
Is finally and permanently
Discredited and abandoned,
Everywhere is war.

WAR

Until there is no longer first class
Or second class citizens of any nation.
Until the color of a man's skin,
Is of no more significance than
The color of his eyes,
I've got to say "war".

WAR

That until the basic human rights,
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race,
I'll say "war"

Until that day the dream of lasting peace,
World-citizenship and the rule of
International morality will remain
Just a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never obtained.
And everywhere is war.

Until the ignoble and unhappy regime
Which holds all of us through,
Child-abuse, yeah, child-abuse yeah,
Sub-human bondage has been toppled,
Utterly destroyed,
Everywhere is war.

War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south,
There is war,
And the rumors of war.

Until that day,
the african continent will know no peace
There is no continent,
Which will know peace.

Children, children.

Fight!

We find it necessary.
We know we will win.
We have confidence in the victory
Of good over evil
Of good over evil

Fight the real enemy!

Bob Marley

[Buzz Clik]

7. Thank you for sharing those photos. A fitting tribute.

[Philosoraptor]

9. UNBEARABLE. UNACCEPTABLE.

[Blue Fire]

10. Another brave American soldier killed.

He leaves behind a grieving family and tears at our hearts with his sacrafice. And for what? Why did he have to die?
For a damned LIE! I would challenge our worthless Commander in Cheif to look Sheyla Randazzo and Julian Arechaga in their eyes and explain to them why they had to suffer the loss of a brother and a son. But that would require a couple of character traits * never has and never will possess; integrity and courage.
Let's never forget that *'s lie doesn't in the least diminish Sgt. Julian Arechaga's honor, loyalty, and patriotism to our nation and his sacrafice is no less than that of any other American warrior who has given the ultimate sacrafice at any time in our history.
May his family come to know peace. And * to face his personal responsibility for his deceit and dishonesty.

[Ioo]

12. I cried as I blogged about this story.... (MORE IMAGES)

http://www.speciousreasoning.com/node/1536





What was Bush doing



Please forget what you see, move along, just a comma

[Aviation Pro]

13. Want to get angry in addition to sad?

...things are just smiles and guitars for this little fucker....



Happiness will occur when John Conyers gets the gavel.

[texasleo]

16. I'm too angry to be sad

There is no hell hot enough to accommodate the scum who continue to apologize for this administration's war.

[patrice]

23. This IS hell. Jesus is still here and we are still killing him.

[chat_noir]

17. Time To Say Goodbye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBpBPlvj6QA

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[KingFlorez]

21. That's just hateful

[rasputin1952]

24. I have stood at many a military funeral, I have heard Taps rolling

across the cemetery; I have been there so many times, and yet each time, the respect for those who have worn the uniform I wore, or any uniform of the Armed Services never leaves me, regardless of the action the life was lost in.

This family did not deserve this. This Marine NCO did not die defending Liberty, he died on an expedition to enrich the elite of this nation. This Marine did the job he was sent to do, he was sacrificed upon the altar of war, and for that I shed a tear. What this abomination of an administration has done is the real crime here. This Marine was used as a pawn by those who have never had the courage to wear the uniforms of this nation, who think that human beings are their playthings in a sandbox of their making.

To the family, you have my condolences, your loss is my loss, our nation's loss. May you find Peace in the future.