Posted on 11/05/2004 9:22:40 AM PST by cgk
Good Lord. This is the first I have heard of anything like this. These people practically live at the Pentagon.
Would be hard to get by with a scam.
Why don't you provide a link (not from DU) that says this BS.
I don't believe you.
This certainly did turn out to be a tacky gossip fest over the back fence, didn't it? So much for showing respect for the dead.
Yes, it did. I see it as a great love story.
A love story that begins between two young men at war, and never ends, but grows.
All of the crooks who ran the government from 1992-2000 should be charged...they are directly responsible for 9-11 as well as crimes against humanity in Yugoslavia.
"A love story that begins between two young men at war, and never ends, but grows."
Um...I'm not really sure what you mean by that. Can you clarify?
that is what I thought.
I live here and was privy to some knowledge that others aren't. Once again, I feel that it was wrong to change the childrens name. I wont say anything else and please DO NOT accuse me of being a part of the DU especially after their poll that 11/3 was worse than 9/11!
Their shared love for the deceased is a strong base for a relationship.
Even if this hero were not killed, it still remained that his family deserved to be taken care of, as far as I know, there are no MIA benefits, only death benefits. Perhaps even a premature declaration of death at least relieved some of the widow's financial burden.
I have no doubt that all concerned would be joyous in the homecoming of their loved one -alive- even if it meant difficult decisions about their private lives.
Look, I don't think you are from DU, but I want to see some respectable publication that says this. I have been following this case for awhile and I have never heard of them trying to hide anything.
In fact, it is my understanding that Buddy Harris maintains a very, very high security clearance. Hard to do it you are cheating the government.
It sounds like your story is back yard gossip.
Not sexual of course. It didn't even occur to me that you would consider that.
Young men at war develop a love, respect and closeless for each other that we can't really understand, but it appears to be very strong.
Take a look at the post by Laurita. It explains a lot
***http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271772/posts?page=109#109
That intensity being brought to the family of the deceased is what brought Buddy and Joanne together.
Sorry, I didn't think that was what you meant but I wanted to be sure. There's been so many troll posts lately I think I'm getting a little paranoid.
While "affairs of the heart" and matters of love and affection are far from being my specialized knowledge (just ask my wife), I believe you are correct. History is full of stories of soldiers, cops etc. marrying the wives of fallen comrades. I believe there were at least a couple (and maybe several) firefighters who marred the widows of 9/11 firefighters.
They did not take the father's name away. They hypenated it AND gave the Speicher name to their new children.
We had to do the same thing with my girls, with the blessing of their happily alive father.
He wanted them (my kid's dad) to have a very stable home with me. It NEVER diminished Mike's role in their lives and they still kept his name with the hypenation.
Please don't judge situations you don't understand.
Those firefighters left their own wives to marry those widows. There was a television special about it. It is some psychological phenomenon with a name I can't recall.
No problem. I can understand. Your previous posts made me certain you weren't a troll. so I gave you the short version. LOL
Yikes! All of them? Now I really wish I hadn't brought that up. I'm not sure if that proves the point or not.
I pray the family finally gets an answer to what happened.
I dont believe they should take their Fathers name from them....They should not have added Harris..thats how I feel.
Besides posting blatantly false information, insinuating that the Speicher children's name was taken away from them when it was NOT, now you're moving the goal post and saying that the Speicher kids shouldn't go by the ''Speicher Harris'' name. Yet I haven't heard a peep of protest from you about the Harris' honoring Scott by tagging the biological Harris children w/ the ''Speicher Harris'' moniker.
Furthermore, you have ignored answering my question about ''the money'', the Navy money. Was it life insurance? And would you xplain why you think Scott's sister is somehow more entitled to 'Navy money' than Scott's widow & children are?
"Your previous posts made me certain you weren't a troll."
LOL! I checked out your post history too before I made my VERY CAREFULLY WORDED request. I didn't think you were a troll either so I wanted to get clarification without offending a potentially new Freeper buddy.
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