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The long goodbye…

Good morning, Netizens…

This is how you say goodbye forever… with heart-rending tears.

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images

Joanne Ryan (R), mother of USMC Sgt. James McIlvaine, holds McIlvaine’s daughter Alexa McIlvaine (C) while being comforted by Eric Cembrook (L) during a visit to Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery during the burial service for Spc. Stephen Mace Monday in Arlington, Virginia. McIlvaine and Mace were both from the Purcellville, Virginia area. McIlvaine was killed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in April 2009, and Mace was killed October 3, 2009 along with seven other U.S. soldiers in the Nuristan province of Afghanistan.

Dave

Two comments on this post so far. Add yours!
  • arliacne on October 20 at 6:49 a.m.

    Support our troops by demanding their withdrawal.

    We have witnessed far too many of these heart wrenching scenes, shades of Nam. Then, too, I watched three boys from my scout troop go off to a war only to later stand in my scout uniform at their funerals.

    It's time to end this.

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  • lewis on October 21 at 8:43 a.m.

    While our government rages war on its own citizens over a plant that grows out of the ground here at home. Our solders go to far away countries and loose their lives to protect our interests in the opium fields for the rich USA pharmaceutical companies….. Doesn’t make much since does it.

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