While a Nation and World Paid Tribute to a Passing Singer, a Small Town Mourned a Young Soldier Killed in Afghanistan
(CBS) Millions around the world will remember the day Michael Jackson died. Martha Gillis will, too - but she'll be thinking of someone else. She shares her Opinion with us now:
My 24-year-old nephew, Brian Bradshaw, died in Afghanistan on June 25, killed by an IED, but you'd never have known it from the national media.
I cannot tell you how that silence added to the pain of losing this bright, funny, thoughtful young man, whom I remember so vividly as a toddler, wandering the house in cowboy boots and hat (and nothing else).
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The raw emotion of the video will bring anyone to tears.
ReplyDeleteWar is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
ReplyDeleteJohn Stewart Mill,
(I am so sorry for your loss & the loss to your family. He died for freedom that some take for granted. Thats what HEROS are made of).
I watched this on the CBS Sunday morning news. The depth of her emotion is humbling. I cried with her. I agree with her - our treatment of soldiers in our country is shameful especially those that have passed on in service.
ReplyDeleteThe country is shameful thats why we need a revolution to take it back before its to late.
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