You Are Right, Martha Gillis

[tequila]

100% right.

It is not the admiration of crowds that most signed on for. His family and his buddies are the only ones who really mattered, and they will never forget.

[Ron Humphrey]

absolute agreement on all the above.

[Uboat509]

I used to get mad at the press about things like this. As I get older and more cynical, however, I am finding myself placing more and more of the blame on my fellow citizens. The big "news" organizations are profit driven like any other business. They simply report what they believe the people want to hear. The fact that they are surviving or even thriving speaks to how well they can gage what the people want to hear. That tells me that a plurality if not a majority of my fellow citizens would rather hear about the freak show that is/was Michael Jackson and his dysfunctional family more than about ordinary citizens who have died in service to the nation. It sort of raises the bile doesn't it?

SFC W

[George L. Singleton]

My late Mother was a Gillis. Thus I am especially senstive to Martha Gillis's nephew giving his life for our way of life.

The media are mad in their focus, and as another says on this thread obsessed with extra profit via sensationalist drivel.

Proper honor and condolences and appreciation to Martha Gillis and her entire family,

George Singleton, Colonel, USAF, Ret.
Alabama, USA

[Stan]

George, very well put!

I was very pleased to see that 1LT Bradshaw will be duly honored today by The Patriot Guard Riders with an Escort and Flag Line.

His family still serves our nation

...Brian's father is a retired National Guard helicopter pilot. His mother is a retired Army nurse, a lieutenant colonel, she volunteered to return to duty to serve with the Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Lewis. She is also the volunteer director for the altar servers at church.

May he rest in peace!
Stan

[goesh]

There is nothing I can add to the strong, good words already spoken here.

[NOLAGeorge]

Martha,

Your frustration is shared but the media predictable. Your nephew sounds like a fine young man that any moral upstanding citizen would have been proud to have as their own. As a father of a 20yo actively serving in the Air Force, 2 nephews who served in the Army (one a Ranger the other Airborne) and one nephew Marnie Corp Reserve, I know how we worry when they deploy and are so grateful when they return. Each feel as your nephew did, that it was their duty to serve their country, but that isn't what the networks want us to think of our young men and women who serve. Instead, it makes a flashier headline to suggest that they may turn into terrorists when they come home. Now the Michael Jackson love fest, for a child molester, with some parents having served up their chldren for a payoff. The day our homeland is invaded all of the left wingers are going to wish your nephew was here to defend them. God save America, because we are quickly being disassembled.