tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post5847563200511602653..comments2024-03-12T04:51:46.468-05:00Comments on Blue Gal: What I'm doing this weekend...Fran / Blue Galhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293627981248346055noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-4646005341693293312007-07-09T19:28:00.000-05:002007-07-09T19:28:00.000-05:00Thank you for sharing this.BACThank you for sharing this.<BR/><BR/><BR/>BACBAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04394238321236592123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-3955344754139760322007-07-08T13:49:00.000-05:002007-07-08T13:49:00.000-05:00It's a wonderful you do and that AL has organized....It's a wonderful you do and that AL has organized.<BR/><BR/>Seeing the picture of Chief Swartworth, does indeed humanize her death. Not just a random troop, killed serving her country, but an individual who died, leaving behind family, friends, a life.<BR/><BR/>It's an important reminder as we Americans are encouraged to pretend that this is just business as usual, collateral damage, a death for which Swartworth volunteered for, after all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-31035914236908412702007-07-08T13:21:00.000-05:002007-07-08T13:21:00.000-05:00I remember learning of Chief Swartworth's passing ...I remember learning of Chief Swartworth's passing in 2003 and became sickened and spritually drawn down by the sad reality of time and chance during war.<BR/><BR/>So close she came to getting out of the service and yet was denied that nearly obtained goal by mystical misfortune and fatefull destiny.<BR/><BR/>War is cruel, but to be the one who loses their beloved on the battlefield, is simply...<BR/>Hell on Earth. <BR/><BR/>A sad story, but THANK YOU...Blue Gal...for honoring Chief Swartworth's memory!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-2115114609541562842007-07-07T20:55:00.000-05:002007-07-07T20:55:00.000-05:00It is so absolutely, totally, incredibly heart-bre...It is so absolutely, totally, incredibly heart-breaking to me to see the sacrifices of these people being "hushed" into some kind of rumor, nothing you actually <I>saw,</I> just something you heard about on the radio.<BR/><BR/>I'm disappointed, if I may use so mild a word, with our national media's coverage of the loss, and their acquiescence in not showing returning coffins. What an awful show of disrespect of our troops.<BR/><BR/>Your doing this might be the broadest dissemination of Sharon Swartworth's name, as most war losses are being treated as "local news." Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-82638750114547913542007-07-07T19:05:00.000-05:002007-07-07T19:05:00.000-05:00This is very cool. More people need to know about...This is very cool. More people need to know about this.QuakerDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10727729821155579518noreply@blogger.com