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« Reply #20 on: April 24, 2004, 09:12:39 am »
Sorry, started another thread on this before I read it.  Hopefully a moderator will merge it into this one.

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and joined the army, which any true patriot would do

Anyone who loves their country would join the army and go and kill fellow human beings???

This whole patriotism thing seems to have gone way over the top in the US....

The whole damn patriotism thing seems to have left GB.

The man lived and died for his convictions BFG.  This isn't a guy that had nothing, was poor and manipulated into bombing a market full of women and children, this was a guy that gave up 3.6 million dollars a year to fight honorably for what he thought was right.

How in the world can you not respect that?
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« Reply #21 on: April 24, 2004, 10:35:00 am »
Woah, sorry totally missunderstood, and totally wrote somthing that didn't convay what i ment.

well no i certainly do respect the fact that this guy left his career etc to do somthing he felt was more inportant.. there aren't many (any?) people in those circles of live who you here dropping absolutly everything like that...

I have the utmost respect for the fact hey left that lifestyle do do somthing which he felt was more inportant - i think he could have helped is country in other ways that joining the Armed forces, but that was his decision

The fact he died is terrible... like any persons death in a conflict of any kind.
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« Reply #22 on: April 24, 2004, 04:28:49 pm »
Obviously this man is getting a lot of extra attention from ESPN and other media as the case should be, but we still must remember that hundreds of other people have been killed and hundreds of other families have had to endure the same hardships.  Has anyone heard anything from Snake recently?  I hope he's okay.

From what I've listened to from his coaches that have spoken about him he was a great leader and wouldn't have wanted to have had special treatment.  He held no press conference and answered no questions to reporters for publicity.  He obviously made his decision to join the army for the right reason which trully deserves respect.  This man is a hero but just as much as the men he was fighting beside.  When you talk about sacrifice he trully was willing to make sacrifice.  Giving up millions of dollars to risk his life and fight for his country.

Arizona St. is going to retire his number and the Arizona Diamondbacks held a memorial for him last night at their game.
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« Reply #23 on: April 25, 2004, 08:54:26 am »
This even made prime time news in Australia.

It is sad to see yet another life end in such a way.
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« Reply #24 on: April 29, 2004, 05:40:20 am »
Quote from: ?FiRE Infection on April 24, 2004, 04:28:49 pm
From what I've listened to from his coaches that have spoken about him he was a great leader and wouldn't have wanted to have had special treatment.  He held no press conference and answered no questions to reporters for publicity.  He obviously made his decision to join the army for the right reason which trully deserves respect.

These are some of the qualities that I see as being best in man.  ESPN, the NFL Draft and football aside, I think it's important to honor those things that this man stood for.  He may not want special treatment, but he was special.  If more people were like him, the world would be a much better place.
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