Creve Coeur, East Peoria High School are mourning best friends who were killed just a day apart in Iraq

...both just twenty years old, not yet old enough to legally drink in Illinois, but they could carry a gun and fight in a war. They weren't even in the same place.

...how fucking stupid is that? Two kids who were best friends since childhood, are now dead, killed a day apart.

...two kids who expected to come back and maybe go to school or find a job, get married one day and raise children, are dead.

...two kids who were probably scared to death going over, told it was their duty and took up that fight while being so scared; two kids who were in the marching band together at school, had families that loved them, friends that loved them, maybe a favorite pet, a favorite sport, loved music and had a favorite television show, are dead.

It's a beautiful night out tonight, only these two young men will never see that again. Their parents can't enjoy it because now they have two children to bury.

This war sucks...but we're in it...and we need to support everyone who's over there. So if you've lost someone and you think it's your life's work to protest against it, if you're a selfish, ignorant homophobe who think's it's God's will to protest at a soldier's funeral, if you think all war is terrible and they deserve what they get, please just go away. We are not stupid; we know all about freedom of speech and freedom to bare arms. STOP ABUSING THEM.

Maybe if every single person in this country, no matter how much they hated this war, showed our soldiers the respect and support they deserve, this terrible thing would end a lot quicker.

Get off the box, stop embarrassing your country.
posted by Wanting at 6:45 PM