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Well, it takes a lot of courage to be photographed, in uniform, with such obvious scars!
of course his bride looks stunned - she probably wonders how it all happened! But I don't think you fall in love with a face - or, if you do, you fall in love way beyond that when you fall in love.

her dress is just not my taste - I don't like the red heartshaped neckline! But it is really nice with his uniform.
Much better than the black suit she could have been wearing.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

While receiving a folded flag.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

the entire photo gallery.

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

not to be a prick, as this is a truly amazing story of love amidst tragedy.

BUT YOU CAN'T EVEN HAVE A WEDDING (or much of a happy life) IN IRAQ RIGHT NOW. let's not forget that. the fact that he is alive and with the person he loves most is fantastic, but so many won't get that chance on either side of this bullshit war.

― the table is the table (trees), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link

"Becky recalled that on Valentine’s Day in hospital in 2005, Ty was so wounded he could hardly speak. She and Renee taped a pen to the splint on his hand and he wrote as best he could on a dry erase board: “Ty and Renee”.

“Well, we think it said ‘Ty and Renee’,” Becky laughs. “Then doctors removed his ‘trake’ – the tracheostomy tube in his neck that had been feeding him when his lips were too burnt – and he said, ‘Renee, will you be my valentine?’ I cried.” His next words were: “Do you want to make out?"

There must been an awkward moment or two, just then.

This story is really sad, but as painful as it is to think about it, there needs to be more coverage like this in the media, and other newscasters should emulate the end of the Jim Lehrer newshour, when they show photos of all the soldiers who died that day, silently.

― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link

And not just on the field.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link

...at 8:35 p.m. on Jan. 16, Eric, who was in Florida on business, received a phone call from Jonathan, who was staying in an apartment in New Prague, Minn., that Eric owned and where he gave Jonathan a room.
Jonathan told Eric he was in the basement standing on a stool and tying a noose around his neck with an extension cord. A bottle of Captain Morgan rum, three-quarters' full, was at his side, and he was slurring .
"I tried to stall him by being nice, and then I tried getting mad at him, telling him he was taking the easy way out. I told him, 'What about your faith?' I was doing everything I could," said Eric.
"He said: ' The hell with it all, the Marines, the VA, the hell with religion. The hell with it all. I am doing it,' " said Eric.

Then, Eric said, he heard the phone fall to the floor.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i just watched flags of our fathers with the moms, and i actually thought it was pretty well-done. eastwood got the ridiculous jingoism down to a 't'.

― the table is the table (trees), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link

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