First it was french fries and french toast. Now the bones of U.S. servicemen are being dragged into the conflict between France and the United States over war in Iraq. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, plans to introduce a bill today proposing that the families of the thousands of soldiers, sailors and airmen buried in France and Belgium be allowed to dig up their remains and have them shipped home. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/orl-asecwaite13031303mar13.story ------- Will they also be known as Freedom graves?
Now this is all about getting her 15 minutes of fame. What an idiot. The Florida congressional delegation has to be the worst, right?
This story is really too stupid to bear comment, but this is a CONGRESSWOMAN? Un-f----ing-believable. There's nothing else to say, really. I know the french aren't vindictive enough to dig up these bodies unsolicited, and ship them UPS to unsuspecting relatives. But it wonders how low certain of our elected representatives would be willing to stoop.
Just as long as the French can dig up any and all French buried here who died creating this nation, I'm all for it. Matter of fact, list for the public record each and every idiot who does make their way over to France and dig up great-grandpa, so we here on the common sense side of the fence can know exactly who these slack-jawed cave dwellers are, and banish them to wherever Segroves lives...
Not on a per-representative basis. Just in the last few months, 1. Sue Myrick, in a discussion on terrorism, said that she and her husband had noticed who it is that owns so many of our convenience stores. 2. Rep. Ballenger said that he had segregationist feelings toward...Cynthia McKinney? The nutty woman from Georgia. 3. Howard Coble defended the internment camps of WW II. 4. Walter Jones was the impetus behind the renaming of french fries. Now, we only have 14 Reps. No way Florida can match that on a per-representative basis.
Maybe if we can get the Army to test 1,000 MOAB bombs in a long line from the East coast of the panhandle to the West we can blow them right off the continental US...
such an idiot... if she ever visited france she would know her comments <below> are way off base. "The remains of our brave servicemen should be buried in patriotic soil, not in a country that has turned its back on the United States and on the memory of Americans who fought and died there," Brown-Waite said. "It's almost as if the French have forgotten what those thousands of white crosses at Normandy represent," she said. dear ms brown-waite, please resign...you are an idiot.
Fidlerre, allow me to quote maczebus. "The pill-boxes are still there, the reinforced concrete structures on the beaches are still there - you can still go in them (health and safety are dirty words in France), they're pretty decrepit by now, as you would imagine, but they still manage to give some kind of feeling as to what went on there. And as a final point, before slagging off the French for being ungrateful so and so's, go round the countryside in these areas (Alsace and Normandy), you'll find many cemetaries. Some have thousands of headstones, some just 5 or 6. But ALL of them are impecably kept and honoured, whether they be French, British, Canadian, German or yes, even American graves. If ever there was a place in this troubled little continent called Europe, that respected the dead (military or otherwise, I just went down the military route because I thought it might pull the right strings), France is it."
This is rediculous. But shouldn't a family, no matter how obnoxious the notion, be allowed to bring their dead relative's remains to rest anywhere they please? And this does nothing for the debate of what's really going on. This bitch needs to be punted.
i am totally agreeing with you and maczebus. i have been and seen normandy and the surrounding memorials and beaches, went a few months ago for a weekend while visiting a friend studying in france <actually saw a PSG match against nantes> and their gratitude for what our country did for them is unequaled... this lady in congress is a nut that needs her head screwed back on the correct way.
what a nutcase - somebody needs to up her prozac dosage .... I have my differences with the French - but I have walked the grounds of Verdun and other places in France, Germany and Belgium and they have nothing but the utmost respect with the cemetaries and historical places and artifacts. This lady is clueless.
does anyone have an email address where this woman can be contacted? i can say i've never been so embarassed as a republican. my grandmother is a french national and therefore i have french blood. i am a republican and this continues to go way too far. this is being ignorant and abusing the purpose of legislation.
No. I'll choose where I want to be buried, and I don't want any snot-nosed great grandkids disturbing my bones to satisfy some sentimental notion of theirs.
Agreed. I don't think there's anything wrong with it in and of itself--if someone is buried overseas and their family would rather have them buried at home, I don't think allowing the family to move them is such a bad idea (assuming of course the person who died never expressed a wish to be buried there), whether it's France, Belgium, or anywhere else--but what she's doing is downright stupid. She and Cynthia McKinney should have a catfight to the death on the floor of the hall in front of a joint session of Congress. Alex
this is terribly rediculous. Mrs. Brown-Waite has confused what those men faught with with her own conceptual ignorance towards history. Pretending those men died soley in the liberation of france is just so stupid and pretending ""legislation providing financial help for the reburial of veterans from the two world wars." is a good way to "send france a message" is the stupidest thing ever. I can't believe this woman has any political voice what so ever. i wrote my representative this morning and i hope you all do the same in response to this ESPECIALLY REPUBLICANS let them know how this hurts us. the point is she wants to use governement money to aid in the removal of the remains. that is wrong. she's only suggesting that people move them. obviously that is up to the discression of the family, using government money to aid them however is wrong and should not be allowed. PERIOD.
Tell her what you think Send the crazy lady a note. Here are her coordinates. http://capwiz.com/y/webreturn/?url=http://www.house.gov/brown-waite
that doesn't allow you to contact her directly unless you live in her district. you have to go through your representative and ask them to forward anything. it's really best to push your rep to speak out against it too.
yeah, if you don't live in her district, don't bother sending it to her. send it to your rep and ask them to respond to her comments