What's touching your heart today?

footfootfoot · 09-15-2010, 07:45 PM

So, I just got back from my friend's son's wake. He was in dress blues and there was a guard standing by his casket. It was very sad, parents should not have to experience the death of their child.

I heard that a few people complained to a coworker of the mom about how they are pacifists or oppose the war, or have some other major social malfunction that precludes them from offering sympathy to bereaved parents. (Get the fuck over yourself) I'm not for the war either, but that's got nothing to do with this boy dying in Afghanistan. WTF? How conscientious can you be if your main thought at a time like this is your puny moral convictions rather than how his parents must feel seeing him for the last time.

Tonight one of my friends described how the boy (young man) had built a fence around her garden with his dad, just a month or so ago, two weeks before he shipped out for his second tour of duty. She is going to affix a small Marine Corps flag to the gate.

There's a bunch of other stuff, but I'll leave it out.

classicman · 09-15-2010, 08:31 PM

So sorry foot. Hugs for the family.
There is really nothing else I can say.

TheMercenary · 09-15-2010, 09:22 PM

Wow Foot, so sorry for your friends. I have been there and done all of that with direct friends as well as parents of soldiers. My heart goes out to you and your friends. Best wishes....

Semper Fi.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-15-2010, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

I heard that a few people complained to a coworker of the mom about how they are pacifists or oppose the war, or have some other major social malfunction that precludes them from offering sympathy to bereaved parents.

What total assholes, I think these people are as bad, if not worse, than Phelps screaming outside.

monster · 09-15-2010, 10:51 PM

f3 I would hate to have been in your situation. The cow orkers suck, but at least they didn't say it to the parents.

Gravdigr · 09-17-2010, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

I heard that a few people complained to a coworker of the mom about how they are pacifists or oppose the war, or have some other major social malfunction that precludes them from offering sympathy to bereaved parents.

The cow orker should've looked at those 'people' and said, in a low, calm voice: "You're a jerk."

footfootfoot · 09-17-2010, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

The cow orker should've looked at those 'people' and said, in a low, calm voice: "You're a jerk."

Actually, I think she told them off as she had also lost a son many years ago. I think it was more of a WTF is your problem? You are talking to the wrong person...

I found out who the knuckle head was and, surprisingly, I was not surprised.

Griff · 09-17-2010, 09:46 PM

Sorry foot people really suck sometimes.

classicman · 09-17-2010, 09:54 PM

foot fetish people?

09-15-2010, 07:45 PM	#1
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	What's touching your heart today? So, I just got back from my friend's son's wake. He was in dress blues and there was a guard standing by his casket. It was very sad, parents should not have to experience the death of their child. I heard that a few people complained to a coworker of the mom about how they are pacifists or oppose the war, or have some other major social malfunction that precludes them from offering sympathy to bereaved parents. (Get the fuck over yourself) I'm not for the war either, but that's got nothing to do with this boy dying in Afghanistan. WTF? How conscientious can you be if your main thought at a time like this is your puny moral convictions rather than how his parents must feel seeing him for the last time. Tonight one of my friends described how the boy (young man) had built a fence around her garden with his dad, just a month or so ago, two weeks before he shipped out for his second tour of duty. She is going to affix a small Marine Corps flag to the gate. There's a bunch of other stuff, but I'll leave it out. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

09-15-2010, 08:31 PM	#2
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	So sorry foot. Hugs for the family. There is really nothing else I can say. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

09-15-2010, 09:22 PM	#3
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Wow Foot, so sorry for your friends. I have been there and done all of that with direct friends as well as parents of soldiers. My heart goes out to you and your friends. Best wishes.... Semper Fi. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

09-15-2010, 10:51 PM	#5
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	f3 I would hate to have been in your situation. The cow orkers suck, but at least they didn't say it to the parents. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

09-17-2010, 09:46 PM	#8
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Sorry foot people really suck sometimes. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-17-2010, 09:54 PM	#9
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	foot fetish people? __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

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