Thank You for Your Service

[Matty]

God Bless these guys. Such spirit and can do attitudes. Fox ran this story yesterday.


http://video.foxnews.com/v/358408871...#sp=show-clips

[Perianne]

God Bless these guys. Such spirit and can do attitudes. Fox ran this story yesterday.


http://video.foxnews.com/v/358408871...#sp=show-clips

Wonderful story, Matalese. Thanks.

[Alyosha]

And just think we have all these warriors on this forum.

[Perianne]

And just think we have all these warriors on this forum.

I think about that sometimes when I see stories like those. And when our guys have a bad day on here, or elsewhere, maybe we should give them a break for all they have done.

[Alyosha]

I think about that sometimes when I see stories like those. And when our guys have a bad day on here, or elsewhere, maybe we should give them a break for all they have done.

Yes. I have to remind myself of that sometimes. They "go" places where you can't follow them. I could be more sympathetic that's for sure.

[Bob]

I told my uncles story in part and would appreciate the family member or the service man telling his or her story of a departed warrior. Thanks. I edited my post on my uncle several times.

I tracked down the army battle report and read what he was doing prior to dying in a rice paddy in Korea.

[Alyosha]

Here's the thing @Bob

people like my husband or Codename or The Wash or Terminal Lance when something happens to them all you get from the government is "it was a training accident".

That's what we get. We send them overseas and if they don't come home we get no answers and there isn't closure.

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@Ethereal or @Cthulhu's mom and wife would be told where exactly they died and what happened to them. I wasn't allowed to know until 5 years after it happened and it's highly classified so I cannot tell you.

I can say that he died in the line of duty and that everyone who did come back said he was brave, that if it weren't for him they would not be here.

[Perianne]

@Alyosha, why doesn't the government explain?

[Cthulhu]

Here's the thing @Bob

people like my husband or Codename or The Wash or Terminal Lance when something happens to them all you get from the government is "it was a training accident".

That's what we get. We send them overseas and if they don't come home we get no answers and there isn't closure.

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@Ethereal or @Cthulhu's mom and wife would be told where exactly they died and what happened to them. I wasn't allowed to know until 5 years after it happened and it's highly classified so I cannot tell you.

I can say that he died in the line of duty and that everyone who did come back said he was brave, that if it weren't for him they would not be here.

I never did like that about the service. Family should get to know what happened to their loved ones. Opsec is important, but we need to re-evaluate what we're doing and why we're doing it if we can't let the families know what they were doing.

I don't think any parent should have to out live their children, but if they do, they deserve to know why.

[Alyosha]

@Alyosha, why doesn't the government explain?

Their missions are classified. Sometimes it is intelligence gathering, sometimes it is rescue operations, sometimes what normal people would call an assassination. Some would say that they go over the border illegally into nations not directly involved with a Congressional war act.

Lots of reasons but they'll tell you "troop safety". @Peter1469 or @Ethereal or @Codename Section could explain better.