What We Are About To Do Here Is What The Good Lord Would Call A Cleansing of the Wicked. I Call It A Good Old Fashioned Texas Ass Kicking.
Posted on 05/17/2006 7:05:24 AM PDT by USMCPOP
ARLINGTON, Va., May 16, 2006 — Paula Zwillinger knew something awful had happened when she saw two military officers waiting in her driveway as she came home from work on June 6, 2005. The officers told her that her son had been hit by a roadside bomb in Fallujah and had died 17 hours later. .....
......Zwillinger would know nothing about her son's final hours until months later, when HBO called to tell her about an upcoming documentary called "Baghdad ER."
It turns out that HBO was there in the Army hospital in Baghdad when Zwillinger's son, 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Robert Mininger, was rushed in for treatment. Its cameras were rolling as the medics struggled to keep him alive. ....
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knew something awful had happened when she saw two military officers waiting in her driveway as she came home..........
a military family's worst nightmare
"Mrs. Zwillinger, we're going to show your son's gory death to increase our ratings during Sweeps Week. "
There's something uniquely unsettling about having cameras rolling in the ER, and a mom can watch the real last moments of her son's life. I'm not sure this is a good idea.
"Mrs. Zwillinger, we're going to show your son's gory death to increase our ratings during Sweeps Week. "
There you have it.
Ghouls.
When HBO invades a family's privacy to delegitimize war-- its good.
When the executive invades privacy to stop terrorism-- thats bad.
Understand?
There is no way I could watch that if I were her.
I hope your daughter recovered from her injuries.
Until late in World War II, photos of Amerian dead were not allowed to be published so as not to demoralize the American Home Front.
Today, the liberal media considers the demoralization of the American Home Front as it's duty.
Crap - sorry to hear that. Send her a big "Get Well Soon" from all of us FReepers stateside, and I'll keep her and her fellow warriors in my prayers.
I have mixed feelings on the HBO show. I don't have cable so I have not seen it. I do believe Americans need to wake up that we are at war with a dangerous enemy.
That's why I went to and recommend "United 93." The movie shows there are relentless Islamic terrorists out there who must be stopped. We can't wish them away.
The HBO series may serve the same purpose. We have sent our young warriors over there and they are doing their best to protect us. Some, are hurt or killed and we must never forget their sacrifice. Their families also are part of the sacrifice and we should help them the best we can. If a mom is helped by seeing her son's last hours on tape, God Bless her. All TV is for money and ratings. If we find some good among the bad, so much the better.
Don't know if you ever saw "Saving Private Ryan" (although your tagline suggests to me that you have) but the most moving scene in the entire film,IMO,was seeing Private Ryan's mother fall to her knees on her porch as the Army Officers and the Chaplain got out of the car.
Related to this is an article in the WaPo Style section by Paul Farhi entitled, "Strategic Retreat? -- HBO Says Army Brass Initially Rallied Around 'Baghdad ER,' But Soldiers Are Mostly MIA at Screening in Washington"
I can't for the life of me understand why the Army "went to great lenghts" to support this project and then refused to go see it when it came time for the screening.
Even if the producer has a seemingly anti-war attitude (Who's pro-war, anyhow?) what a GREAT opportunity that's been missed for the Army to be in front praising the performance 86th Combat Support Hospital in saving lives that in GulfWarI would be cemetery plots.
How can we expect the MSM to tell our story if we're not willing to do it first?
God Bless Your Daughter, s_a. She's a hero in my eyes, too. Which are getting a little blurry just now.
I worked in the Emergency Room of a major hospital for 20+ years and we never,ever,*ever* allowed family members or friends of a critically ill patient to stay in the room with the patient while emergency treatment was being rendered.It was believed that doing so could,among other things,result in in serious psychological trauma in the family members.
Things are done to patients in such situations that could understandably be seen by civilians as being very disturbing (I won't give any more details,although I could).
This show is just another reason why it would be a cold day in hell before I subscribed to HBO or any other similar channel.
She has been a real trooper though. She rides her dirtbike, plays volleyball and you really can't tell what she has gone through by her actions or demeanor. She is a hero. She is a hero. She is a hero. She is a hero. She is a hero.
She is a hero. Some on the left just don't realize it yet.
God Bless your daughter.
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