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U.S. Soldier Dies in Canada During Exercise Maple Guardian
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Marketwire
May 8, 2008
WAINWRIGHT, ALBERTA — US Army Specialist Josef Cerfus, 25, with A Company, First Battalion, 5-159th Aviation Regiment from Fort Lewis, Wash. died after being injured during field exercise MAPLE GUARDIAN on Monday, May 5 at the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Center at CFB Wainwright, Alta.
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Specialist Cerfus was part of “sling load” operations with a US Army Chinook helicopter when the accident occurred. He was treated on the scene by emergency medical technicians and evacuated to the Wainwright hospital shortly after where he was pronounced dead at approximately 11:54 a.m. MT.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with US Army Specialist Josef Cerfus’ family during this most difficult time,” said Maj.-Gen. Stuart Beare, Canada’s Army training commander in Kingston, Ont. “Specialist Cerfus was serving his Army and his unit by participating in the preparation of Canadian Forces men and women destined for deployment in Afghanistan. He and his unit have served us – and we will do everything we can to support them and the Cerfus family in return, especially in this time of need.”
The Canadian Forces are securing the scene of the accident pending the arrival of a U.S. Army flight safety team who will conduct an investigation. Since the accident is under investigation, no further comments will be made.
Exercise MAPLE GUARDIAN is a key exercise and CMTC is a national training centre which designs and delivers collective training in Full Spectrum Operations in the contemporary operating environment.
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May 8th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
If he had not been participateing in un lawful bulls--- aimed at the people
He would be alive!
May 8th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
google >>> staunch maple exercise
May 8th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Darwin Awards, anyone?!
May 8th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Afghanistan, my ass. If this was a training exercise for Afghanistan operations, why was it called Maple Guardian (why not Camel Guardian, or something more appropriate?) and why was it held in Canada, which our military officials – not the president or the congress – just signed an agreement to “assist” – and be assisted by – in the event of martial law being declared in either country? This was plainly an exercise in urban, house-to-house martial law evacuation, whether the setting was actually made to resemble an Afghan village or not (and did it?).
May 8th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Gary Says:
Afghanistan, my ass. If this was a training exercise for Afghanistan operations, why was it called Maple Guardian (why not Camel Guardian, or something more appropriate?)
hahaha Camel Gaurdian…anyways your right…this reaks of the beginning stages of martial law…
May 8th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
afghan/iraq/iran training is done in 29 palms
May 8th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
sorry… US troops running the investigaton on Canadian soil???
May 8th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
good riddance, one less to worry about
May 8th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
#7 mark, yes, my sentiments exactly. Why would the kanuks (no offense, please) investigate their own accident???
Was this a Pat Tillman exercise?
May 8th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
They sound so concerned about his death…………my ass! NEXT!!! Get another sucker to take his place, and call it Patriotic. I’m sick of this s--- and I’m ready, I’m a 51 year young Mom and Wife, and I have more balls than most men I know!!
May 8th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
#9 LOL seeing as Canada was originally spelt Kanada(as translated from the native word for “village”), no offence taken…
but seriousally… why would we want their army detectives over here, poking their noses around where they have no constitutional boundaries…? and we have our own detectives… lol who know the land, and the people, and the laws… why would we need/want to involve anybody else…?
May 8th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
The US is our trading partner, our neighbor, our ally and our friend… and sometimes we’d like to give them such a smack!
what the hell? Canadians can lie and make s--- up just as good as any American. It strange that Americans are call in to do the investigation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVtrqdwKYT0
May 8th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
#10 YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 8th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I feel bad for this guys family. Dieing for a lie is the worst way to go. And, they are not training for Afghanistan, they are creating a reality of war right here, right now.
Remember, we create our own reality, we attract the same energy we send out, so ask your friends and neighbors, what kind of future are they projecting? Peace, love and trust? Or WARFARE, Death and destruction.
You may not believe in magic or directed energy to make future reality, but I assure you, the leaders of the NWO do and they are acting out rituals now to further our death and destruction.
I pray there is a God, and that we can be helped, because it sure seems like a Sh!T storm is here.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I think we’re in for it people.
There is just too much coincidence going on.
For example:
1. Huge FEMA Internment Camp excercises taking place right now and scheduled through May 25th
2. Large COG excercises taking place now in Washington D.C., transporting thousands of federal employees to underground facilities like Mt. Weather in WV
3. Excercise Maple Guardian, obviously an excercise of Canada protecting it’s borders from us!
4. Wives of military personnel at several bases called to closed meetings where they are given food vouchers (happening now)
Get ready to fight people. I have seen this before!
May 8th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
#15 Gladiator, huh? military wives in secret meetings getting food vouchers? Got any more details/
May 8th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
#15, I agree it sure don’t look too pretty!
All should be sitting on ready!
When the net goes down completely THAT will be the trip wire!
May 8th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I received this information this morning from a woman who has a friend who is a military wife living on a military base.
This military wife was called along with others to attend a mandatory meeting held inside of a tent. The women who were told to attend were all upset because they thought they were going to be told their husbands were going to be re-deployed to Iraq after just coming home from a 13 month extended tour.
However, at the meeting, after being reassured that their husbands were not going back they were told, there might be some “situations” that may happen that would make getting food difficult or even impossible.
The officers went on to say that in order to protect the safety and security of the military families, vouchers for food and power generators were being issued. The women received these vouchers which were for “dried beans and rice”. The generator vouchers were also received but a note contained in the voucher said these would be available when needed.
This is all I know and attempts by me to find out more have not revealled anything more.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
no constitutional boundaries…?
We allready have a North American Army signed in about a month or two ago
The constitution don’t mean squat to our shadowy dark overlords
May 8th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
kiss your masters feet..go on..kiss them!
You see we have conquered the world, and you are merely our fodder. Now run into the field, even the children..RUN DAMNIT. My soldiers need target practice..
-the previous sentence is fiction, but if you dont want to see this, impeach bush now.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
19# ignoring a civil contract, does not nullify it… both our constitution and the americans, are contracts… signed by the leaders of the people, with the support of the people.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I think we’re in for it people.
There is just too much coincidence going on.
For example:
1. Huge FEMA Internment Camp excercises taking place right now and scheduled through May 25th
2. Large COG excercises taking place now in Washington D.C., transporting thousands of federal employees to underground facilities like Mt. Weather in WV
3. Excercise Maple Guardian, obviously an excercise of Canada protecting it’s borders from us!
4. Wives of military personnel at several bases called to closed meetings where they are given food vouchers (happening now)
I received this information this morning from a woman who has a friend who is a military wife living on a military base.
This military wife was called along with others to attend a mandatory meeting held inside of a tent. The women who were told to attend were all upset because they thought they were going to be told their husbands were going to be re-deployed to Iraq after just coming home from a 13 month extended tour.
However, at the meeting, after being reassured that their husbands were not going back they were told, there might be some “situations” that may happen that would make getting food difficult or even impossible.
The officers went on to say that in order to protect the safety and security of the military families, vouchers for food and power generators were being issued. The women received these vouchers which were for “dried beans and rice”. The generator vouchers were also received but a note contained in the voucher said these would be available when needed.
This is all I know and attempts by me to find out more have not revealled anything more.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Thanks for the info gladiator. Was this for the military wives in Canada, or the U.S.?
May 8th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
#23 Josh – United States Military Wives
Supposedly at these bases: Little Creek (Special Warfare), Camp LeJune, Fort Bragg, Fort Benning
May 8th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
ok, thanks Gladiator
May 8th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
I’m a person who really doesn’t believe in coincidences. Do a little snooping and you might find out that the Canadian and American government is trying to limit the yield this year. It’s completely counterintuitive to the current situation. I live in a fairly rural area, the closest cities are basically towns. I’ve seen military training in the small towns now. That has been unheard of for a long time. There would be the odd military training exercise every few years, but not every town in a year and it’s only May!
May 8th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I am concerned about this because I have seen this same tactic used in other countries (Nicaragua) during my own past experience (now retired).
The government made sure to take care of their soldier’s families so they could be assured of their continued control of their soldiers.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
#27 agreed… that way they can say “if you dont do what we want, we’ll pull the plug on your familys food vouchers”… extortion at its finest
May 8th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
The Gladiator Says:
3. Excercise Maple Guardian, obviously an excercise of Canada protecting it’s borders from us!
haha no!…Harper signed an agreement that allows FEMA to TAKE CONTROL “if” an emergency should happen…I’m pretty sure the article was posted on infowars
May 8th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
http://www.mindfully.org/Refor.....3sep04.htm
Look at the list of FEMA camps… under Canada, Wainwright is listed as a FEMA camp.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
That’s what you get for violating the holy law of sovereignty…and for working for the concentration camp system that is our military bases. Let this be a lesson to all military who blindly follow orders and break our laws in the process!
May 8th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Galdiator, your information is very important, as is your experiance. I had similar experiances in South America in the late 80s, troop movements ALWAYS mean something.
People everywhere should start watching out for build up of military type vehicles around police stations, county buildings, City storeage areas and the like. Any armored vehicle you have not seen in your local area before is a BIG WARNING SIGN! I have also seen allot of trains loaded with Tanks and such, could be normal, but it could be something else. Just keep and eye out, and LET OTHERS know if you see any movements.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Yeah, the Lord does work in the most mysterious circumstances too !
May 8th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
It’s a mistake to believe that the ones that die in the military are more wicked than we are. Are the ones that died in the Twin Towers on 9/11 more wicked than we are? Jesus says, those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” (Luke 13:4-5).
The whole world will suffer in the coming years; the only ones who escape it are the ones who are lucky enough to die. Hellfire and damnation await the unrighteous after death.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
“Operation Maple Guardian” is training for Afghanistan. Canadians have been there since the beginning and have committed troops till at least 2011. Unlike Iraq, Afghanistan is a NATO mission.
http://www.mdn.ca/site/Feature.....5/09_e.asp
May 8th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Gladiator — What is a COG exercise?
May 8th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
First let me explain about what I meant about the Canadians. When martial law is declared in the U.S. thousands of Americans will try to escape to Canada, thus, they are training to keep us out, to close their border to us.
COG stands for “Continuity of Government” The idea being, government must continue to operate regardless of the situation.
Freecell, your right, keep a watchful eye, something is definately brewing
Organize people, prepare now, get in shape, be ready to fight, find a former combat officer who hasn’t sold his soul
May 8th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Please spout your religious propaganda somewhere else. If we would life to read the bible we will.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
The aliens forget to remove his anal probe.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:10 am
guy im from canada THERE IS NO WAY canada would be able to “secure the border” from americans the only reason we dont have 40 million illegal aliens in our country is because the US is between us and mexico.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:04 am
I agree maurice that Nafta is the biggest joke ever, but hiring 2 Canadians for the price of 1 American, not likely.
May 9th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Canadian army is one of the best trained army in world
May 9th, 2008 at 7:54 am
#43 If they come down here for Martial law,
They will get their ass kicked by American Patriots!
Nuff Said!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Unitedstatsians we should say.
The americas are too big.
Canada’s army rides on kayaks.
US of A on patriotism.
Citizens did not create armys,the rulers did.SOLDiers!
May 9th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I trained with canuks during a reforger in 86 and they were all great guys and everybody got along fine but if they come here to help with martial law, they better beware. American troops are less likly to shoot fellow americans but candians just might do it. And UN forces would have no qualm killing americans. This is also the reason that they never use national guard units in their own cities because of family ties. They would hesitate to injure their own. Remember that the patriot act was ment for US and not the real terroists.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:36 am
#47 your a f---ing idot eh
May 9th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
So this is the integration of the two countries here being shown. Why are American soldiers training with Canadian forces in Canada??? The collapse and rise of the economies is designed to put people into fear while they lose their homes, jobs, families, and experience the pain of inflation on food costs. Either Americans are going to run for Canada while the economy is still stable, or the wonderful governments will step in and give the people once again a problem – reaction – solution scenario in which the countries will merge together to create a more prosperous economy WHEN IN TRUTH there will be lower standards of living, failing health care, false flag and bio chemical attacks on the people, RFID ID cards, Bio metric scanners, DNA databases from birth, and a new american union which will be acting as the global enforcer by killing people in other nations, and enslavement of its own people into FEMA camps where they will be injected with all kinds of dna destroying chemicals, and tortured. You think this won’t happen to you or here? Wake up my friends because history repeats itself when the masses have been programmed to think it is in the past and your the world of football and never educating yourself is what matters. Go eat another f---ing mcdonalds meal, sit on your ass, complain about everything, watch football, masturbate to some porn, and watch your chance at a life go by.
Wake up the sheep to the global elite
May 9th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Well said 48.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Sorry to hear about this tragic death. Happy to hear these exercises will end tomorrow without a false flag op.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Incorrect chain-link count or was he or whoever, didn’t secure the static line for grounding???? CH-47s are big when hovering overhead and the rotor wash is quite intense, let alone the noise!
May 9th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
You all clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. First of all, Exercise Maple Guardian has been conducted for a number of years now. It is a joint training exercise designed to prepare soldiers for deployment. It is not called “Camel Guardian” because exercises are usually named according to where they are held, or what they are for. Since the training is in Canada, Maple Guardian seems like a perfectly good name to me.
It’s called urban warfare. I don’t know what you think goes on in Afghanistan, but we are no longer sitting in trenches or fighting in forests. Urban warfare training is standard training, and in no way indicates ‘martial law’. That is simply an uneducated thought. Perhaps you should do your homework and look up what martial law means.
As for the American’s being a part of the investigation, they have every right to be, just as we would if a Canadian soldier died on an exercise in the states.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
I was in a unit with the nat’l guard at Ft. Lewis, Wa. I was a mechanic on the hueys’, cobra and a Sgt. We trained at the same place. That was back in 1990. It was good training, and of course back then we did not have what was going on as it is today.
We had fun, and the Canadian’s have a good force. Heck they even had a beer tent for the end of each day. That was part of there ration’s. Same as the brits. Beer is part of there staple of foods. I how ever found out you do not want to drink with them. They can handle there beer very well and its hard to try to keep up with them (lol) !!
I realy enjoyed being in Canada, I would not mind living there really. I found the folks to be very friendly and not up-it-tee. I made some good friends there and am proud to have served along with them.
I shall say we trained hard and we did not get much sleep during that 3 week period. But it was worth it, I give spec/4 cerfus a salute and farwell my fellow brother…my you rest in peace and be in the lords hands…
May 9th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
We will never allow the Canadian military to merge with the American Military, I know its in the works with the SPP agreement, but we will fight until we win, we will not give up and fulfill the globalists in the American government to take over Canada.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
We are our own sovereign nation and hae our own rights and constitution under attack on many levels. chemtrails are in full swing here along with flouride in water of large cities to keep us dummed down and in line so these elites can secretly take over our countries, no matter what country you are in, canada, US, brita, ireland, the merged euro nations. we need to stand up and ask like your fore father did and not be scared little bitches anymore, wake up and turn off fox new and cnn and protest for our right
May 10th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Your all fn crazy
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I was born on that army base which is in Alberta Canada. And I am attempting to find out what is going on from friends. Concerning 9/11 two buildings get hit by planes yet 3 go down. One was dynamited (Building 7) . I have been watching the play out of the Rothchilds and Bilderberg group for years. The true believers have come out of the church years ago. Go to “The Living word”
They came out in 1967. See what Gods shows them about Bush. Feel the Love that these people have. Parents are afraid of teens because of social sevices they cannot parent them any more.
Remeber nazi Germany when the teens joined the brownshirts Party and would report their own Parents this is coming down the line. You have in the states welfare taking Mormons they whole village. Only Adolph Hitler would do the same watch my friend what happens this fall.
Most people are saying Obama will never get in because he will be shot first. Or Bush will start WW3 The Lord calls :The Statue of Liberty” The Statue of Decadence” she personifys the “Harlot”
See 1880 France ‘The time of the Decadents such as Oscar Wilde or better yet research your bible
the word ‘Harlot” her height is 111ft from the Hebrew alphabet where the letter ‘Vau” is written with the stroke of a pen and stands for 6 hence 666 it also means nail or hook hence 3 nails in christ 666. 9/11 is 111 days to the end of the year. Oh just Coincidences huh? 1776 in her hand
minus 666= 1110. revelations says all the merchants ships will wail over her when she is no more
history says all the merchants pass under her. She truly is a masonic gift from the Masons of Farance for the new world order( Alumanati) She has a chain under her foot” Mother of Exiles ” the name Emma Lazerte gave her). President Grover Cleveland ‘Sated her alter shall not go unneglected” Hin so he worships statues HUh? Ok
The bible calls her” Mother of Harlots”
Ok see JFK executive Order 11110 he wanted to strip the Federal reserve of its power.
They Killed him coincidently Hunt and Bush were in Texas. They Killed 11 mon 22 day 33 parallel at the Masonic Dealy Plaza. Laura Bush car accident killed her own Boyfriend ;what are the chances of that hasppening. J Edgar Hoover try to find out how he died can’t? He said Quote “If a conpiracy was so big no one would beleive it” Why would he say that? Anyone.
Ron Paul wanted to disband the Federal Reserve just Like Kennedy. Abraham Lincoin printed his own money don’t you people get it but i am a Canadian and know nothing.
Getting back to Wainwright Alberta Canada yes these are being built all over the world. Next thew chip. Nostradamus called Him the King of Terror (Bush) “In the year 1999 and 7 months from the sky shall come the King of terror.” G W Bush announced his running for president same exact time. Jesus is called the “Prince of Peace”. Bush is called the “King of Terror” He is a fighting a fatom or CIA operative that he will most asssuredly never catch. Butto recieved bullets in the head in Pakistan and prevoiusly blamed the President backed by Bush if anything happens. Wake up people. Only the cost of a few bullets to keep the war on Terror going.
Another Interesting thing 12 yr Teen plans murder Kills her parents and family members on a teen site along with her Boy friend in his twentys Jeremy Stanke ,Medicine Hat Alberta ,Canada
Site is called ‘Nexopia based out of Edmonton Alberta. Reference is ‘James Stevenson ;from Broadcast news, Calgary Canada. call information talk to him he sat thru the trial. Wake the hell up parents!
Hey I just got started.
Rmartel
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Hey can you actually post on this site I type a lot in and of course it zapped it all because i didn’t have the number and erased all
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Since I was born on the base as a child and would stand behind the hercules planes as they took off. and even snuck up on the Soldiers as a 7year old. Now don’t ask me why I was on the same training feild as them.I lived in what was called the EMQ (EMERGENCY MARITAL QUARTERS)
For years the training exercise was called ‘WainCon War Games”
No doubt the name has changed to such as the teeens would say ‘Sweet name” Ummm bulls---” I was also an civilian Ammo worker as a Teen and work as Kitchen help in the Mens mess and the British Officers Mess.
Security was lax when I was growing up with a commissionaire manning the gate but that has all change now. My dad fought in WW2 in the Canadian Army and my grand Father was in the British navy. I makes me mad that the Pope visited Adolph hitler to make a pact with him and also America. He plays both sides. There is enough evidence against the Rothchilds and the Bush family being Nazi sympathzers during WW2. J Edgar hoover seized an american bank assets and Preston Bush said it was his money and J Edgar Hoover(FBI) to Preston Bush and your a Nazi too.
Americans have every right to investigate but are they building an Internment camp????
Wake up! There are Interment camps set up already thru out the states. Hmmm lets see raise the price of gasoline so no one can afford it. Hence people starve like in Haiti” Then they riot ;then we can come in and arrest them. Years ago the media said in the 1995 that it will remain at about 14 dollars a barrel because there was a glut. They can not be trusted to report the News own by the like of Conrad Black ;used to be the New York times own by the Rothchilds; ever heard of the Bilderberg group that actually runs the world; along with the CFR. We all just cattle and they want to limit the World population to about 1/2; whether this means staged attacks by your own government. Watch out for the “Staged attack” this fall in USA. 2008
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:19 pm
I truly feel sorry for anyone who is too lazy to read and check facts. Like I have been doing for years. yes keep your head buried in the sand like a scared Ostrich. Just like they did in Nazi germany. Nothing happen there right. No one listen to Winston churchill when he said to get rid of the nut bar Adolph Hitler no parliemnt went on vacation that summer like usual in Britain but you need to read in order to find this out. Hey lets do the same today oh ooops gasoline is too high now. get real people.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:29 pm
#56 – 59, Rmartel, howya doin’? My sister moved to Canada years ago, so I’m aware of our Canadian neighbors and I also listen to Dr. Deagle (N.S.), as well as others. Are you aware of the bill C51 disguised a a Health Bill? You really need to Google it and read how dangerous it is and spread the word. It is also coming to America and Mexico. Thanks for nothing but misery, Codex Alimentarius!
May 25th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Ok now what happened to the other posts here come on guys lets let us see them all
May 25th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Ok Guys lets be fair post all 61 responses
May 25th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Yes mary I did hear about bill C51 ;there is a lot of BS that the government is doing.
And by the way .The average Canadian like Americans but like fellow Americans we do not trust
POLITICIANS and i haven’t for years.
Sorry about posts 61 and 62 did not figure out how to read the others you know just a dumb Canadian oops
May 25th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
But you guys have had Bushes and Clintons in Presidents and Vice presidents for so many years;
If you go back to the Mayflower Plymouth Rock Bush and 3 other presidents were related to them in 1620 ;these people are more pesky then flys got any raid or off. Or as Jesse Ventura says with an Interview with Alex Jones vote what your heart says . Everyone should listen to that interview
June 4th, 2008 at 3:17 am
Joe was a good guy. I knew him since we were in middle school. My heart breaks for his family, and for him. I sat with him on the bus about eight or nine years ago and he told me how he wanted to serve his country. I asked him, “What if we go to war?” He said that he would go and fight for freedom with honor and integrity. I asked him if he would be willing to leave his family and risk losing everything. He said that he would be doing it for them so that they could have good lives. I asked him if he would really be willing to die in war. He said that then at least he would die with honor for the sake of his country. On that day, I was in awe of him. When I found out about his death, I remembered that conversation. I went to his funeral and embraced his mother and sisters. I saw a man who was three months younger than me laid out in a casket cold as ice. His future, his hopes, his dreams; dark and silent within his lifeless body that had once been their vessel. So to Viet Nam Vet, Poor College Student and Jay from Canada… didn’t your mothers teach you that if you have nothing nice to say, then say nothing at all?! A young man, a son, brother, friend, fiancee, uncle, and child of God is dead. May God have mercy on your souls and I pray that you can learn to feel compassion for others before someone that you know is ripped from this world for a senseless cause. RIP Joe. Love and prayers are with you.
July 16th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
jay from canada… and all you others who talk bad about MY BROTHER how could you. If your brother died would you speak so poorly. You dont have to agree with this war, or the United states choices… But how dare you talk poorly for the soldiers in it. I hope that you never have to read or hear people talking badly about your loved ones who died. You honestly have no soul. You dont even know this this soldier and you are talking so badly of him. You talk horribly of him just because he is a SOLDIER. what do you do sit around and just talk big and sit around and do nothing?? you have no idea what goes on over there. unless you have been there YOU HAVE NO IDEA. you guys are tryin to treat this like another Vietnam.. you dont get what they are doing to us there.. they send out children that they kidnap but bombs around them and blow them up.. they are doing this to CHILDREN what do you think they would do to a grown man. those fighters over there use children as shields.. our soldiers are the childrens shields. so please if you do not agree us… go over there live with the iraq people. Tell them you are american, canadian, or whatever you are. If you are anything but middle eastern.. if you pray to anyone other than ALLAH (but considering your previous statements i doubt you have any God) you will die a horrible death.. You will WISH you just had yoru head cut off with a rusty knife.. some of the things they do wish you were dead.. You are a coward.. you wouldn’t make it as a soldier.. I doubt you’ll make it as anything. So please you want to talk bad about soldiers.. please allow me to buy you a ONE WAY ticket over there.. you can stay and be with the people you support