My father was killed while in Vietnam, USAF. The irony is the air force had just deployed a recently modified version of the F4 Phantom. Note that this was veterans day, 1974..when we were officially out of the war, when Nixon was bombing Cambodia without telling anyone. They allowed the plane to continue service despite knowing it had a fatal defect, which occured when my dad was flying, training a guy, he immediately ejected and saved the other guys life which was enough time to unfortunately cause his ejection system to melt/fail. My mom sued the air force, won, and the reward was forcing them to pony up to ground them all to fix it. The point of my story is like our current day travesty, the utter clarity of how fucked our policy of policing the world is beyond understanding. We have our own people starving, dying, and flooding our society with broken lives. May all who have ever died in any conflict over religion, politics, color, etc. be not forgotten.
This may be a bit of a morbid question, but it’s legitimate and serious. Do they have like a coroner or someone over there to make the bodies in coffins more presentable after a violent death? Or do they just take what they can find and put it in?
spyscience on August 28th, 2021 at 06:34 UTC »
My father was killed while in Vietnam, USAF. The irony is the air force had just deployed a recently modified version of the F4 Phantom. Note that this was veterans day, 1974..when we were officially out of the war, when Nixon was bombing Cambodia without telling anyone. They allowed the plane to continue service despite knowing it had a fatal defect, which occured when my dad was flying, training a guy, he immediately ejected and saved the other guys life which was enough time to unfortunately cause his ejection system to melt/fail. My mom sued the air force, won, and the reward was forcing them to pony up to ground them all to fix it. The point of my story is like our current day travesty, the utter clarity of how fucked our policy of policing the world is beyond understanding. We have our own people starving, dying, and flooding our society with broken lives. May all who have ever died in any conflict over religion, politics, color, etc. be not forgotten.
red-bot on August 28th, 2021 at 10:23 UTC »
This may be a bit of a morbid question, but it’s legitimate and serious. Do they have like a coroner or someone over there to make the bodies in coffins more presentable after a violent death? Or do they just take what they can find and put it in?
Richard31328 on August 28th, 2021 at 12:18 UTC »
I’m reminded of John Kerry, who asked, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”