"Just as the details were emerging of a sex scandal involving Gen. David Petraeus that the media was calling 'explosive,' Staff Sgt. Kenneth Wade Bennett took what bomb disposal experts call 'the lonely walk' toward an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. Bennett was on his third combat tour there and this time he had left behind a pregnant wife and a 2-year-old daughter. A snapshot taken of him and his daughter, Lila, just before he deployed in September showed the two of them walking hand in hand away from the camera.The full article is here, along with the last snapshot taken of Sgt. Bennett and his daughter. Is it possible to read the story without choking up?
'No bye bye, Daddy,' the girl said. 'Don’t go away.'
'One more time, honey,' he told her."
Saturday, November 17, 2012
"The Lonely Walk"
While our broken media is busy wanking, bug-eyed over a new sex "scandal" in government, it's worth remembering that there are selfless, heroic members of our armed services dying daily:
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Someone had better stand up and make sure that family doesn't lose their new home. P.E.C.
That would be a tremendous injustice; hopefully, they'll get help from the lender / community / insurance.
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