Posted on 11/05/2004 9:22:40 AM PST by cgk
If one truly loves one's spouse and wishes only their happiness and one has chosen one's friends carefully and with love, it seems natural to me that they should have a connection through you and a responsibility toward one another.
Frankly, if someone does not trust their best friend to behave with honor and love towards themselves and their family, they should review who they choose as a friend.
I wish this family much love and joy and I honor their sacrifice, as they have honored Captain Scott Speicher's.
I agree. CAPT Speicher's family has suffered a tremendous burden in the service of the nation. This Navy family deserves better treatment than some of the posts on this thread.
If he had been declared MIA first, they would have continued to receive his monthly pay (probably).
I have no idea what happens with the pay when someone is declared captured I think only a Navy financial officer would be able to sort that out.
In addition, one would assume that IF the Navy decided to pay the family his back salary, they would have expected to get the death benefits back.
How would one go about that? How would the Navy take back a funeral with full military honors?
The legal issues pertaining to bigamy would be muddy as well.
The family must deal with their emotions while the lawyers deal with the legalities.
Search for Speicher: Friends talk about developments
Yep, anyone who could do that is not human. I don't care what happens to Sadaam. He can rot on this earth or in hell for all I care. He deserves his fate that's for sure. All those innocent men, women and children/babies he killed while his perverted sons reaped havoc on those they came across was horrid. So many families ripped apart and sad. The pig Sadaam deserves to burn in hell. That's even too good for him. He's been so close to evil I wouldn't even want to put a hand on him for fear that evil inside him is running so rampant it would come out of his pores. God what an ugly, ugly man. Less than human.
Bump to keep this thread up.
another bump.
Sources say they also have information that convinces them Scott was held captive for some time before he died.
That information is evoking strong emotions from his friends.
"It tears me up to think they had Scott for so long and we demand accountability. Whoever did that to Scott not only should they be held accountable and the people who made the miscalculations and miscommunications and mistakes in our own government need to be held accountable," says Jensen.
There are no further details available as to exactly where the remains were found, only to say not near the crash site.
LCDR Michael Scott Speicher is a great American hero. We can only once again "wait and see" while these remains are analyzed. We will never know what he went through after he ejected from his aircraft, but we do know that the search effort in 1991 was called off when his fellow pilots wanted to keep searching for him.
A positive i.d. may bring out some politically undesirable facts.
My brother-in-law is a cop. One of his good friends was killed while on duty. His young wife went on to marry another cop who was also a friend of her deceased husband. One of the young guys who worked for my husband was killed in a car accident and his wife married another sailor that was a close friend of her husband. As you said, it happens all the time and I don't think there is anything wrong with it.
I hope his remains can be brought home and interred according to his families wishes, so they can go on with their lives. It's been tragic.
God I hope they have found him.
Prayers for his family.
If it is him, I wonder how long he has been dead.
In 1995 a series of crash-site experts ranging from aviation engineers to anthropologists filed reports to the Pentagon. These reports were classified, but information from other sources began to leak to Smith. Many of the records some of which have been declassified and obtained by Insight sharply contradict what Smith had been told. Crash investigators reported Speicher's Hornet did not blow to pieces in the sky. The F-18 was found right-side up, and many of its pieces (including the engines, which had no entrance or exit wounds) were in a circle.
Investigators also determined the wreckage had been previously examined. A pilot's jumpsuit was found along with straps of a parachute and such survival items as an inflatable raft and a signaling flare. The flare apparently had been lit on both ends at one time.
The jet's damaged memory unit revealed the flight had taken off Jan. 17, 1991, at 1:36 a.m. Seven minutes later it experienced a computer failure that may have made as many as three missiles inoperative. Nearly two hours later Speicher's ALR-67 radar-warning receiver went on, which may have meant a complete failure of the radar system, making him unable to detect threats from air or land. At 3:49 a.m. the pilot turned off his autopilot, and a few seconds later the Hornet lost power after being struck.
Engineers reported the rocket motors that push the canopy off for ejection had burn marks on the frame, which meant a good ejection had taken place. Further evidence shows that up until Speicher's ejection at least 58 air-crew members had ejected from F-18s. Six were killed, but while the others were injured from either the initial jolt or parachute landing, 52 survived.
"Money from the Navy...if she remarried it would then go to his sister."
I think you are wrong here. If the wife remarried, she may no longer get any allowance for herself, but his children would still receive money in his name, even if their names were changed.
I suggest you read up on the facts before coming to quick conclusions concerning this story.
That is a very nice story. Thanks for sharing it.
I agree that there's nothing wrong with it. I'm also shocked by some of the posts in this thread. Even if people don't like it, it's really none of their business.
My husband and I have sworn to each other that if something happens to one of us that the other will never marry again. We don't do it because either of us expects it. It's because right now we can't believe that we would ever want to be with anyone else. However, we can't predict the future and we can't know how things will change if the worst does happen. Ultimately, if something happens to me, I would wish for my husband to go on with his life and be happy. And I'm sure that Scott Speicher felt the same way about his wife.
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