Sign Tallying Military Deaths Upsets Army

Sign Tallying Military Deaths Upsets Army

Saturday December 31, 2005 1:02 PM

By PATRICK CONDON

Associated Press Writer

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - Scott Cameron never imagined his modest memorial to American troops in Iraq would transform a quiet street here into the latest front of the nation's tense debate about the war in Iraq.
His sign tallying the war's dead and wounded reen treated in this country is shameful,'' Cameron said this week.

His tribute has irritated the military recruiters next door, who dislike the daily reminder of friends lost. Staff Sgt. Gary Capan, the post's commander, requested that the sign come down for his colleagues' benefit.
``They're saying, 'Why should we have to look at that? We lost people over there,''' said Staff Sgt. Gary Capan, the post's commander. ``It's not just a number to them.''

Some of Cameron's supporters believe the sign will hurt recruiting.
``You're a young kid and you see those stark numbers, you might realize there's a cost you didn't consider,'' said Gary Tonkin, a Vietnam veteran.

It all started a month ago, when Cameron, a volunteer for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Kelley, posted a sign in the window of the campaign's local office. It reads, ``Remember the Fallen Heroes,'' and contains three tallies: the number of American troops killed in Iraq, the number wounded and the days passed since the war began.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5514486,00.html

Gee, the used-car salesmen can't make their nut because some sucker sees the tally and realises at the last moment "Fuck! I could get KILLED while they're teaching me how to look my dad in the eye when I shake his hand!"

They play a National Guard recruitment spot at the movies these days. I call out "How many of those kids are now DEAD, or MAIMED?" while they go on about how GREAT it is to be in the guard and serve only 2 weekends a month... Haven't been ejected yet...

The recruiters should be upset with the Sheeple who DON'T question the casualties, because to those Dildo-heads, the Dead *ARE* "just a number", yellow magnets on the backs of SUV's notwithstanding.

the DoD's own statistics, mind you.

Do they want to forget?

...requested that the sign come down for his colleagues' benefit."

Yeah. So his colleagues could make their quotas.

Remember the First Amendment, juiceheads? What you swore to "support and defend"? Quit trying to silence dissent and get a better product to sell.

hard time recruiting up here in the first place because it is Democrat and the Duluth NewsTribune is a good newspaper with most of the truth published when it is needed. The picture is funny.