A PAINFUL FAREWELL TO A FALLEN MARINE

I saw this in the Boston Globe this morning and it made me cry.

THIS DAMN WAR MUST END.

'SHE FLIES NOW ON THE WINGS OF ANGELS'

SWAMPSCOTT -- Captain Jennifer Jean Harris was one of the first pilots to reach her helicopter and lift off when the emergency call came into the ready room on the day that she died. Though the 28-year-old Marine was just days from leaving Iraq, Harris was still focused on ferrying injured Marines to safety, said her former commander, Colonel Michael Hudson . Before the CH-46 troop transport she was piloting crashed this month, he said, Harris and her six crew members saved the life of one more Marine.

"There are so many people today who are not gathered in a place like this because Captain Harris flew," intoned Hudson, standing ramrod straight in his dress blue uniform as he spoke from the pulpit.

Harris, the only daughter of a General Electric worker and a schoolteacher, died with all of her crew members when her helicopter crashed 20 miles northwest of Baghdad on Feb. 7. A Sunni group with connections to Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility, but the Marines have not confirmed that. A Marine spokesman has said that the aircraft was in flames as it went down, but there was no sign of enemy fire.

Lieutenant Rose Goscinski , Harris's roommate at Annapolis, recalled that when Harris learned she had been accepted into Marine aviation training, Harris gave all her Navy dress uniforms to the younger, similar-sized Goscinski so that she would not have to purchase more uniforms herself. "You felt guilty complaining to her about some minute thing because, my goodness, she could do it all and do it with grace and style," Goscinski said.

Now, Goscinski said, her "sister in arms" can rest, concluding, "You have fought the good fight. You have finished the race. Lay hold of eternal life." The congregation broke into applause.

"Captain Harris was free when she flew," Hudson said. "She flies now on the wings of angels."

By Scott Allen, Globe Staff - February 20, 2007

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MORE THINGS I DON'T GET

"Everything they did was right," said Lt. Nick Watt with Clackamas County Sheriff's Departmen. "In fact everything the climbers did in this occasion was right which makes the big difference between . . . a successful rescue and a recovery."

He was talking about the Mt. Hood climbers that were stranded on Mt. Hood since Sunday.

What I don't get is why they took the dog with them? Is that normal when your climbing a mountain?

FLIP-FLOP

Is it still a FLIP - FLOP when the Republicans do it?

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

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Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.

PRETTY GOOD JOKES

GOOD PACKAGE

COWBOY WISDOM

Your fences need to be horse high, pig tight and bull strong.

Life ain't about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.

Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.

Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.

Meanness doesn't just happen overnight.

Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads

Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.

It doesn't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

Posted by thebscorner at February 20, 2007 05:46 AM