Mourning Emily Perez

[Nbadan]

This post is for all the Emily Perez's who's obits get tossed on the 8th page of most M$M newspapers, including the Express-News...

Emily was the first black woman to serve as corps commander sergeant major at West Point. She graduated in the top 10% of her class. She was a leader among leaders. In spite of all that promise, this story does not have a happy ending.

You will not see it on FOX (she's not blonde enough), or The Today Show (she's not shallow enough), or BET (she's not freaky enough) ... that doesn't mean her story is not important enough.

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Sometimes our prayers go unanswered. Emily died in Al Kifl, Iraq, on Sept. 12. As this increasingly pointless war churns on, it is easy to grow numb as they throw more of our children into that meat grinder. But every now and then a story comes along that gets past my defenses and I wonder how much longer we will let the Pied Piper of hatred and violence lead our children to a place of no return.

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[SA210]

My prayers and thoughts truly go out to Emily and her family and the rest of the thousands risking it all, over this illegal war.

Thanks Dan for this thread.

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