Every time a famous person dies and makes headlines, there will soon to be an e-mail or Web posting somewhere that whines about the famous person that lots and lots of people know getting headlines, and the people in the armed forces (usually Marines) who died this week not getting any headlines despite the fact that they aren't famous. Ironically, these postings and e-mail usually only mentions names and ages, but fail to do the very thing they whine about, tell us anything about them other than the fact that they died. They whine about no media coverage (despite it not being news outside of a hometown somewhere) and then they create their own media to cover it, and then don't.
Here's the thing....
The above is strikingly similar to a nearly identical piece written
last year. Most of the names are the same:
Lindsay Lohan, 24, is all over the news because she's a celebrity drug addict. While Justin Allen, 23, Brett Linley, 29, Matthew Weikert, 29, Justus Bartett, 27, Dave Santos, 21, Chase Stanley, 21, Jesse Reed, 26, Matthew Johnson, 21, Zachary Fisher, 24, Brandon King, 23, Christopher Goeke, 23, and Sheldon Tate, 27 are all Marines that gave their lives this week, no media mention. Honor THEM by reposting.
All 12 listed above were killed serving in Afghanistan between
July 10 and 16, 2010, not
this week, all were Americans except Brett Linley, of Birmingham UK, who served in the 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment,The Royal Logistic Corps. Nine of the 12 served in the
US Army,
not the Marines. Extensive searching has yet to find any record of
Justus Bartett, but an obituary for 27 year old Marine Staff Sgt. Justus S. Bartelt , of Polo, Ill, so that was probably a typo.
I ran across another nearly identical copy back in January, except that one stated the men were all with Third Battalion 5th Marines currently serving in Afghanistan, that
all nine died this week (despite listing twelve names), and they were all Navajo, which was very believable because, you know, names like Weikert, Santos, Johnson, Fisher, and Christopher Goeke are all
really Navajo-sounding names.
There are Web sites that list these men, who they were and how they died. But apparently those details do not matter, as long as the sentiment is good. After all, it's the feel-good intentions which are important, which is quite pathetic when you realize "good intentions" is bread and butter of the liberal left. The only difference is the "patriots" who put this crap out there have the added element of trying to make you feel guilty for something or another.
No, these Marines did not give their lives for me this week, most of 'em even aren't Marines, and I won't feel guilty because I know who Lindsay Lohan or Any Winehouse or Paris Hilton or anyone else who is famous is, and I don't know some dead soldier who I never met and wasn't famous.
