The shallowness of our value system

[Gregg(What's his name)?]

With no disrespect intended to the Jackson family, but this reveals the shallowness of the value system in our country.

This puts things into perspective:

While the focus today, tomorrow and for the next God-knows-how-many-days will be the death of a pop culture icon; while many will mourn, wail and quite literally make fools of themselves over it and while as many will speak endlessly about it, allow me, if only for a moment, to remind us all that others have died this month; others whose lives were cut short; others who leave behind loved ones and whose families will dearly miss them; families who'll suffer with much more dignity and honor than we'll be exposed to on the tube in the coming days.

Yes... it's true... we've suffered a great loss... but forgive me while I tell you that I'm not talking about the king of pop music.


These American military members died in Iraq this month:
Sergeant Justin J. Duffy
Specialist Christopher M. Kurth
Specialist Charles D. Parrish
Lance Corporal Robert D. Ulmer
Staff Sergeant Edmond L. Lo
Sergeant Joshua W. Soto
Captain Kafele H. Sims
Specialist Chancellor A. Keesling
And these members of our U.S.
Armed Forces died in Afghanistan this month:
Sergeant Jones, Ricky D.
Specialist Munguia Rivas, Rodrigo A.
Command Master Chief Petty Officer Garber, Jeffrey J.
1st Sergeant Blair, John D.
Sergeant Smith, Paul G.
Staff Sergeant Melton, Joshua
Sergeant 1st Class Dupont, Kevin A.
Specialist O'Neill, Jonathan C.
Chief Warrant Officer Richardson Jr., Ricky L.
Specialist Silva, Eduardo S.
Lance Corporal Whittle, Joshua R.
Major Barnes, Rocco M.
Major Jenrette, Kevin M.
Staff Sergeant Beale, John C.
Specialist Jordan, Jeffrey W.
Specialist Griemel, Jarrett P.
Specialist Hernandez I, Roberto A.
Sergeant Obakrairur, Jasper K.
Staff Sergeant Hall, Jeffrey A.
Private 1st Class Ogden, Matthew D.
Private 1st Class Wilson, Matthew W.
Let's remember and honor this day those whose deaths are truly impacting our Freedom and Liberty.

[4RE KLR]

Thank you Gregg,

God Bless them , every one!

[Silverback51]

Yep, that brings things into perspective alright.

[Dan40]

Some of us have always known any soldiers death is important and didn't give the death of a bleached out, drugged out, pedophile a second's thought.

Wounded soldiers are important too.

The funeral of the uni-gloved crotch-grabber, isn't!

[Ron61]

Thanks Gregg,


May those soldires rest in peace and know that most of the people appreciate their sacrafice for us.

Ron

[terry251]

These soldiers died so some degenerate like MJ could make a billion dollars, cross dress, act like a fool and enjoy his god-like status amongst all the single-digit IQ, entitlement cretins that the rest of us are supporting with out tax dollars.

MJ was a waste of oxygen.

RIP troops and welcome home to the rest of you.

[cobra de capell]

Michael Jackson dies and it’s 24/7 news coverage. A real American hero dies and not a mention of it in the news. The media has no honor and God is watching

Ed Freeman

You're a 19-year-old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.

You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.

Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter and you look up to see an unarmed Huey, but it doesn't seem real because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.

Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come.

He's coming anyway.

And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire as they load 2 or 3 of you on board.

Then he flies you up and out, through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses.

And he kept coming back, 13 more times, and took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.

Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died on Wednesday, June 25th, 2009, at the age of 80, in Boise , ID. May God rest his soul.

The media didn't give him the coverage he deserves. THANKS AGAIN, ED, FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY. RIP

[Bill Bess]

Thanks Gregg!
There's a whole list of much greater valued men and women that keep protecting and giving us the right to do what we do here in America.
In addition, we've lost several famous folks lately that also contributed to our lives and happyness...I thank them too.
MJ was a great entertainer and provided a lot of fun for millons, but I think making him a World Class Icon is an example of missguided values and unfair to all the good guys.

Bill

[fsstnotch]

Ya, it sucks! I believe the current total for the month of July is in the mid 50's!! But even still, all I see in the news is MJ's kids custody...