tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post1643689547062468529..comments2024-02-15T03:32:25.686-05:00Comments on Preludium, Anglican and Episcopal futures: After All This Time....Mark Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06871096746243771489noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-12209493870020489882009-04-09T11:55:00.000-04:002009-04-09T11:55:00.000-04:00This hits home harder than most, the soldier under...This hits home harder than most, the soldier under that flag served in the same unit as my friend's husband. She's also career military.Mary Suehttp://orderofsantaignora.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-25805717951534113442009-04-09T10:53:00.000-04:002009-04-09T10:53:00.000-04:00Andy... me too. The people who loose a member of t...Andy... me too. The people who loose a member of their family, the people who care for people in the field of battle (see Fred's response) and those who care for the wounded deserve never to be treated as items for propaganda.<BR/><BR/>Your caution is well taken. <BR/><BR/>My guess is that the Dover flights will not make the news after this first day. Our responsibility to continue to remember the human costs of war are not about seeing the pictures but about being aware and alert to the realities.<BR/><BR/>I don't think there is any easy way to do this.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the note.Mark Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06871096746243771489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-37029261474568553902009-04-09T10:19:00.000-04:002009-04-09T10:19:00.000-04:00I am, especially, appreciative to the families who...I am, especially, appreciative to the families who allow us to share in the solemn homecoming of their loved ones. My father served in WWII and he frequently said that when the first life in war is lost the war is lost. We need see the return of our fallen soldiers so that, hopefully, the decisions made about war keep this reality a part of decision.Kay & Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04244257765709660605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-63847773181672113982009-04-09T09:27:00.000-04:002009-04-09T09:27:00.000-04:00Mark+,While stationed at Dover, I witnessed this s...Mark+,<BR/><BR/>While stationed at Dover, I witnessed this sad, solemn act on numerous occasion. Not only these, but when a soldier who was injured in say, a training exercise would come home. One ofe my duties included sending the dispatches on to the decedent's home of record.<BR/><BR/>I don't want to gloss over the human cost of either just or foolish wars. Still, I'm troubled by the thoughts that these images will become agitprop for bomb throwers on both the left and right.<BR/><BR/>A. Terry<BR/>Diaconal CandidateAndyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03516444685469895837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-76850356689388847812009-04-09T08:43:00.000-04:002009-04-09T08:43:00.000-04:00Fr. Mark,The REAL cost is felt when one stands on ...Fr. Mark,<BR/>The REAL cost is felt when one stands on the battlefield just after the last round has been fired and you begin to collect the dead and the wounded. The mix of feelings the runs through your head is far more basic than dignity and honor. Only later, in the light of a new day, does one begin to try to decipher the more cerebral questions. I have no problem with our citizen soldiers but I have a major issue with those who treat these soldiers like so much cannon fodder useful only insofar as it grows their ego. Sometimes, rarely, is it necessary, but each life is so precious that I could only hope that those old men who tend to make war should be the ones not to meet the bodies at the airport but be the ones who pick up the pieces off the battlefield.Frank Remkiewicz aka “Tree”https://www.blogger.com/profile/00501821790434895826noreply@blogger.com