Posted on 12/24/2011 9:33:36 PM PST by rabscuttle385
SOMERS POINT — Master Commandant Richard Somers will have to wait a little longer to come home, if it happens at all.
Efforts to repatriate the remains of the city’s namesake and U.S. Naval hero — killed with his crew aboard the USS Intrepid in 1804 in Tripoli Harbor during the First Barbary War — date to the 1840s.
Spurred by this year's political upheaval in Libya, the movement seemed to finally have the congressional backing it needed to order the Department of Defense to take action regarding the return of the bodies of Somers and his men to the U.S.
However, the language in an amendment to the 2012 Defense Authorization bill that ordered the return of the bodies was changed at the last minute in favor of a diluted order for the issue to be further evaluated.
And this was done, supporters of the measure say, at the request of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a former Navy prisoner of war.
“Sen. McCain told our group, told the families, that he had no problem with the amendment, which appeared to have unanimous, bipartisan support in both houses of Congress. Then literally at the last minute, in the cloakroom of the Senate, he stood up and opposed it,” said Michael Caputo, coordinator of the Intrepid Project, which is spearheading the repatriation effort. “We were at the top of the hill. This was the furthest the families had ever come toward repatriation, and then Sen. John McCain, ‘Mr. Veteran,’ sucker-punched us and knocked us back down the hill.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pressofatlanticcity.com ...
McCain is a traitorous sociopath.
Merry Christmas to all!
Sorry I’m not around much.
McCain is a neo-con Muslim Appeaser just like Hillary and Bill!
This turd was the REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE!!
He was put there by the Republican ELITE!
Why should we EVER listen to them again??
I dunno. If you read the article, it appears that no one knows exactly where any of these 13 Americans’ graves are. The rest in “four or five mass graves” in the Protestant Cemetery in Tripoli. How we could extract and identify the 13 American remains is not at all clear and no one seems to be addressing the issue of disturbing the remains of perhaps thousands of other non-Americans. They are not laying in 13 well marked graves. The attempt to extract them could easily turn into an expensive and embarassing fiasco.
If you want to get angry, get angry about the management of Arlington Cemetery, were at least 65,000 graves may have been mismanaged.
McCain probably has a hand in that too.
I don’t think you can blame McCain for dumping the bodies of fallen Infidels into unmarked graves in 1815. Steven Decatur’s own brother was buried at sea during the Barbary Wars. (Of course, Steven himself sought out the man who killed him and killed him himself in hand-to-hand combat. His brother was killed by a Barbary ship feigning surrender. Decatur found the ship, boarded it and killed the captain himself, while his crew dispatched the rest of the villians.)
He is a Democrat.
Merry Christmas to you FRiend!
No apologies necessary, hey: you’re out there ‘takin care of bidness’ ;)
My very best for a prosperous 2012 if Kim Jong 0bama doesn’t tax it all away first! lol
CHEERZ!
MKJ :)
(No offense intended to her, she is hot in many ways including politically.)
There is something very wrong with McCain and his treatment of vets is, unfortunately, only the tip of the iceberg.
I wish you'd speak your mind. ;-)
Merry Christmas to all!
Back at ya!
Sorry I’m not around much.
Me too! :-)
Good lord this man is a wretched piece of sh*t...and Arizonans keep re-electing him.
He is contemptible, to say the least.
SJB: Good to hear from you, brother...
” Good lord this man is a wretched piece of sh*t...and Arizonans keep re-electing him.”
McCain spent $21,600,000.00 and had Sarah Palin here pimping for him.
J.D. Hayworth spent $1,600,000.00, and only had ME pimping for him : )
Miss ya pal.....;too busy to FReep these days.
RE Pimping:
Ha!!!! Did ya get to wear the crushed purple velvet leisure suit with the leopard-trimmed hat and drive the Salmon-Pink Caddy-LACK El-do-Rado too?? !!!
Every time I hear the word “pimp” I remember the Seinfeld episode wear Kramer got busted because they thought he was a pimp...
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