Reclaiming the Dead

TMZ is choosing to complain about the $52 million that the military spends each year to reclaim the remains of dead American soldiers. 

Turns out, the military spends $52 million each year to find the remains of missing soldiers—it’s part of the POW/MIA program. That’s all well and good depending on the circumstances. But a crash that is ancient history, at a time when the economy sucks and the Federal government is sucking the life out of everyone with taxes??

1. Money well spent.  It’s an idiotic complaint.

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   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 21, 2008 at 0914 hrs




2. It is funny, but were I to have died in the service of my country, I could care less where or whether I was buried.  There is no such thing (that I know of) that would be considered desecration of my dead body by others that would stop me getting in to heaven.  If it were legal, I would be burned on my own property when I die to save the cost burdens of death.  I guess I am not against spending that money, but honor is in the memory and the biggest argument for bringing them all home is closure, knowledge that they are really dead.  In that sense it is money well spent.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 21, 2008 at 1057 hrs




3. It is not about money or anything else - it is about honor.  TMZ doesn’t know anything about honor, I guess.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 21, 2008 at 1324 hrs