August 16, 2005

Casey Sheehan

I wish to take exception to some posts I've read around the blogosphere that claim his reputation is being tarnished. Casey Sheehan volunteered to serve in the military, from all accounts thought that serving and fighting for his country and the cause of freedom a worthy thing, and died trying to save his mates.

The rather sad and pathetic spectacle of his mother trying to use him, his service, and his death to in a calculating bid to feed the voracious needs of her own ego can do nothing to tarnish it. No matter how much contempt and disrespect she shows him, his reputation remains unsullied and untouched. No matter how much excrement she attempts to pour forth over him in a greedy need for attention and validation, it will never rise to a measurable level around the base that is the example of his life. That base, and the shining legacy atop it, will forever tower over her and shine as a beacon no matter what is flung at it.

LW

UPDATE: Welcome LGF Readers. Please also read Blackfive's Casey Sheehan - Someone You Should (Have) Know(n).

Posted by wolf1 at August 16, 2005 11:19 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Well written and said. I agree!

Posted by: michele at August 19, 2005 01:54 AM

You clearly have not served in the military - nor have you lost a child during service in the military. You just read Soldier of Fortune magazine, talk like a tough guy, fire some rounds at the firing range, yell at the TV, and pretend to know what you are talking about.

You are pathetic. You don't hold a candle to this man's sacrifice - nor his mother's anguish.

You will delete this post, no doubt, because you cannot find a way to deal with it.

Posted by: Stan at August 19, 2005 07:39 AM

Oooh, look everyone, an intellectually challenged and lazy troll who wants attention! Normally I would delete a post like this as it is not rational, much less subscribing of rational discourse, but it makes a great challenge: how many logical fallacies can you spot? Aside from Ad Hom, Strawman, and Apple-Oranges? Don't think not reading the "About Me" stuff or looking around the site a bit counts as a logical fallacy, unless they have added a new one of which I am unaware...

Also, is SoF still published? Not sure I've seen it or read it since High School many years ago...

... Is Eric rubbing off on me?...

Posted by: Laughing Wolf at August 19, 2005 11:03 AM

Lots of chuckles at NASA now that someone found your blog, Blake. You were tedious to deal with at NASA. Consensus now, after reading this, is that you have gone waaaay off the deep end.

Posted by: Buzz Lightyear at August 19, 2005 06:08 PM

Tedious? TEDIOUS? Sirrah, you offer insult! I may have been aggravating and enraging, but I have never been tedious.

Stan/Buzz/Whomever you are: You do realize that it is easy to tell that you are not at NASA, but coming in of Comcast? Do you really want the details posted?

If this is what it takes to make you feel big, important, or superior, I feel sorry for you and will ask that others pray for you.

Posted by: Laughing Wolf at August 19, 2005 06:45 PM

I live in NJ now. My pals still work at NASA.

Posted by: Buzz Lightyear at August 19, 2005 07:01 PM

Well, my blog was known at NASA HQ and elsewhere from the start, so if you really do have any pals at NASA and they have just found it, they are even slower than you. Given your propensity for hiding behind fake names and such, really doubt you have anything to do with NASA other than watching it on TV. If you ever care to engage in anything other than ad hom and showing your ass, come ahead. Otherwise, leave the adults alone.

Posted by: Laughing Wolf at August 19, 2005 07:09 PM

Oh you'd be surprised. Ta ta for now. They're chuckling in Huntspatch.

Posted by: Buzz Lightyear at August 19, 2005 07:19 PM

Yeah, right. I should take the word of someone too ashamed to use their own name, deal in verifiable facts, or show any intellectual rigor. What a sad thing. Sorry, all you evoke is laughter, mixed with pity.

Posted by: Laughing Wolf at August 19, 2005 08:21 PM

Hey Stan, the (not) man, who lives around Tucson

I served in the military, so did my kid. He went to Iraq. So did my nephew. My dad served. My grandparents served. So did my great grandfather. Half of my family was wiped out in WWII (they're German, and yeah, they hated Nazis too). If I meet your requirements, STFU. What are your credentials, other than fake ones? What do you have to offer other than insults? Talk about tough guys, back up your comments with some intelligent debate.

Posted by: In AZ also at August 24, 2005 04:59 AM

My great great great grandfather was a Union general in the Civil War and led a regiment of freed slaves. God bless your soul, William H. Dickey.

My grandfather served in the Navy in the Pacific Theater in WWII.

My father and my mother are both Vietnam War veterans, my father fought in combat as an infantryman and then he became a clerk. My mother was in charge of payroll and then she became a nurse, helping wounded soldiers.

My brother works for the Department of Defense, and I'm still in college and will join the Air Force after I leave.

Casey Sheehan sacrificed his life so that others could be free. His mother soils his memory by saying that he sacrificed his life for nothing, and uses his death as a political tool to support a wide variety of left-wing talking points. Casey Sheehan would be ashamed of his mother.

Posted by: bbcrackmonkey at August 24, 2005 05:27 AM

Stan,

Make sure you go out with your friends and brag about "how you showed them", and "I posted on a blog"... oooooo... can I touch you. So brave!

You will not reply to ANY of these posts.. because you can't find a way to deal with it.

Posted by: Kinetic at August 24, 2005 05:47 AM

To Stan:

I never realized that military service was a pre-requisite to criticizing Cindy Sheehan.

I am, however, well familiar with grief, having lost several relatives to palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel. Do I, then, qualify as a legitimate party to criticize Mommy Sheehan?

Posted by: Brutus at August 24, 2005 05:57 AM

Well, he's surely providing ME with amusement...

You know, it's quite possible that he DOES work at NASA. I'm sure they hire a large number of janitors, gift-shop clerks, and other minimum-wage positions.

Orion

Posted by: Orion at August 24, 2005 07:37 AM
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