LIVE THREAD- Memorial Service at Ft. Hood- 11/10/09

FOX ^ | 10 November 2009

[SE Mom]

STREAMING ON FOX:

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[MagUSNRET]

Can anyone tell me please, if this ceremony will be replaid on any TV channel or live stream video?
Thank you.

[Never on my watch]

That's the name for them: "challenge coins."

Not by me or anyone I served with, maybe it is a term that has been adopted. They are unit coins or service coins. They commemorate a unit, event, military service heroic act or some other solemn event.

Challenge coins is a bar game. Never played it myself. A company that makes some of these type coins is called "Challenge Coins". Every company needs a gimic.

It would be an awful thing for someone to use those coins that were placed on the memorial today to win a beer. Wouldn't it?

[ichabod1]

At best we’re just going to be back where we were when Clinton was in there.

[Tennessee Nana]

As other FReepers noted...

Beautiful old Hymns with beautiful uplifting words and meanings...

I hope they were a comfort to the families...

[mrs tiggywinkle]

DallasSun was sharing the meaning and protocol behind the coins. We welcomed this information.

[silverleaf]

democrats do love a wellstone memorial.

did those cheering idiots have family that was killed? If not they should NOT have been there. Or been under ORDERS to stand at attention. This was a funeral. Not a rally.

the ARMY failed these people by allowing a pep rally to occur at a memorial for the dead. Again.

PS: When our troops are killed in Afghanistan by those few aberrant intolerant jihadis, does the Army bring the local imams in to chant over their corpses?

[potlatch]

[‘puter is slow for me as well...only on FR. hm.]

Me too, and it was last evening too. I can go to other sites in a click but it takes half a minute for things to move here and I’m on cable.

[jersey117]

In any case, he read it.

He was excoriated in the media for his cold shout outs after the attack. I'm sure he got a hard lesson in protocol before he arrived today.

[thecraw]

SHE does NOT want to be there, especially sitting next to HIM... That is a pair of ANGRY people.

Yes lovely scowl!

I wonder what it's like to be married to a US president knowing your husband was born in Kenya.

[TornadoAlley3]

[top 2 toe red]

Well...it is a beautiful letter.....and thank you for posting it.

...and many blessings and thanks to Shawn's wonderful family!

[Earthdweller]

How do you know? And why do you care? He finally sounded like a President instead of a junior congressman celebrity playing "the system".

Credit where credit is due, or else I am not objective in my assessments.

[DallasSun]

Excuse me? There was no chance a “collectible” was to be left. He was well versed in protocol before he got there as all presidents are. Your rudeness to someone you do not know from Adam’s housecat ...on a memorial thread...leaves alot to be desired. And is uncalled for. Someone asked a question.

[Churchillspirit]

Probably plants.....just like at the rallies. Nine year old girl asking softball question etc.

[maica]

I wonder how many ‘sermons’ Hasan has heard in a Virginia mosque about the ‘unfair’ treatment of the DC sniper, soon to die. I find the timing of Mohammed’s execution and Hasan’s rampage to be too close for coincidence.

[mojitojoe]

They make me sick. POS’s.

[swheats]

That aches to see our men grieving.

[DallasSun]

I thank you kindly.

[potlatch]

[I hope they were a comfort to the families...]

I’m very sure they were. It was a nice tribute - in spite of POTUS.

[manc]

OMG

That woman looks to be ready for a boxing fight .

She is one angry looking ugly woman