I rarely quote entire posts, but Democratic Veteran
post was too good not to quote in full:
Journalists who buy the farm in combat
I read over the weekend that right-wingnut writers are beginning the B-I-G lie that Mike Kelly is a “combat casualty”. No. He was killed in a traffic accident. In a combat zone. He was a civilian. That does not make him a combat casualty, not even remotely a combat casualty. Ernie Pyle was a combat casualty, he spent his career with the troops on the front line and was killed by a sniper. He, like Kelly, knew combat was dangerous but accepted the risks to tell the story. He was a civilian (although likely better known and loved by the troops he covered than Kelly) who died in the war, and I doubt he would have wanted a big deal to have been made of his passing. I would like to think the same of Kelly. It has even been suggested by some female (one?) “writers” that he be interred at Arlington. No, not happening, never. To do that would completely dishonor the men and women buried there now and those to be interred there in the future.
To the female wing-nut who made this suggestion: an old military saying for you — wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first.
Okay you stared me down long enough, it was Nooner who made the suggestion
Michael Kelly went at great peril to be with U.S. troops, and he fell among US troops, while trying to tell the story of U.S. troops. So perhaps his final rest should be with U.S. troops, in Arlington, where we put so many heroes
but you probably guessed by now anyhow. I thought he went for the money, another chance to write about Clinton’s Penis (as it related to Iraqi politics or something) and a book deal to be announced. The “he fell among US troops” is a little over the top for anyone but Nooner…doncha think? Sounds like he was in a huge firefight with elite units of the Republican Guard, not a Hummer accident.
A Hummer Accident. And they say irony is dead.