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Title: Honor guard rallies crowd to Ark. veteran’s burial Mourners pay respects to warrior
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URL Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news ... -crowd-to-ark-veterans-burial/
Published: Mar 6, 2011
Author: unk
Post Date: 2011-03-07 17:37:48 by Mad Dog
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SHERWOOD, Ark. | More than 300 people showed up for the funeral of an airman most of them didn’t know Friday, drawn to the cemetery after members of an honor guard feared no one would show up to attend the burial of a veteran thought to be homeless and without a family. Leroy Earl Brumbaugh died two weeks ago at age 74, but until his relatives contacted the funeral home sometime last week, it appeared the only ones planning to attend Friday’s graveside service at the Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery were veterans, active members of the Army and Air Force and a patriotic group of motorcycle riders. “We don’t know what his circumstances were in life or how he ended up where he was, but it’s the same as someone killed in Afghanistan,” said Mark Taylor, a former captain of the Arkansas Patriot Guard Riders who still rides with the group. “We are strangers to them, and they are strangers to us, but for that one day, we’re brothers.” Jim Bradburn, funeral director of the Little Rock Funeral Home, said he had not been able to contact anyone who knew Mr. Brumbaugh, not even family. “Nobody had any numbers on the family, and the numbers they did have were disconnected,” he said. U.S. Air Force honor guard members carry a casket containing the remains of Vietnam veteran Leroy Earl Brumbaugh at Arkansas Veterans Cemetery in North Little Rock, Ark., on Friday. Hundreds of people attended his funeral. Mr. Brumbaugh served 20 years in the Air Force. (Associated Press) As it turns out, Mr. Brumbaugh did have a family, and they had heard about the airman’s death about a week after he died — reaching out to a bartender after not hearing from him for a while. “I would call him every week, and two weeks ago he wasn’t there,” said Mr. Brumbaugh’s daughter, Tina. “So last week I called the bar he used to always go to and they told me the news.” By the time the family made arrangements to travel from south Arkansas to Sherwood for the service, veterans groups had used a chain of e-mails to help the honor guard line up veterans from the Army and Air Force to attend. Mr. Bradburn said a family’s late discovery of a pending funeral is not that unusual, but that Friday’s service was by far its largest for a relatively unknown veteran. “I think a large part of why so many people came out was because they were honoring a soldier who had put 20 years in and felt it was the right thing to do,” he said. Bob Oldham, chief of public affairs at the Little Rock Air Force Base, said anyone who served in the military would agree that a veteran should never be buried without their comrades present, even if they were never acquainted. “You always want to see one of the nation’s warriors surrounded by friends,” he said. “If you’re wearing a uniform, you’re a friend.” Mr. Brumbaugh’s family said he had served 20 years in the Air Force as a flight simulator technician. He served during Vietnam and traveled briefly overseas to Japan. He exited honorably from service as a tech sergeant in 1975. He had been living most recently with a friend in Hot Springs. “He was a very kindhearted individual,” said his ex-wife, Gladys Popso. “He was the biggest jokester you’d ever met.” The funeral attracted the Arkansas Patriot Guard Riders, which attends funeral services of fallen veterans at the request of the veteran’s family and shields mourning families from protesters during a ceremony, if needed. The U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to bar members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church from protesting outside military funerals, but the Riders weren’t needed Friday as a shield as only mourners gathered.
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#30. To: Mad Dog (#25)
SALUTE = size, activity, location, unit, time, equipment These are all the requisite information required to forward in a SPOT report, which is information that helps command know important information about aspects of the OPFOR, (opposing forces.) ;-D
Want me to ease back on him and let him spin to a calmer state? ;-D
Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? I'm REALLY enjoying showing what a dishonorable LYING libTURD creep you are cornflake gurl! Even the scum sucking insane libTURDS at DU don't think much of you, in fact they think that you are a LIAR. LOL! THAT'S really got to sting, when DU thinks that you are a LYING faggot creep you've got a real problem, well IF you are a craven LYING libTURD like you are faggot. the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
I have no opinion on this matter. I was just lifting the needle.
. Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? I'm REALLY enjoying showing what a dishonorable LYING libTURD creep you are cornflake gurl! Even the scum sucking insane libTURDS at DU don't think much of you, in fact they think that you are a LIAR. LOL! THAT'S really got to sting, when DU thinks that you are a LYING faggot creep you've got a real problem, well IF you are a craven LYING libTURD like you are faggot. the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
I am having fun slapping the blind man on the ass like a piñata, but I do know that this can be boring to watch if one is not involved. ;-D
Kewl, as he does deserve this.
Nawww, leave them alone I like watching them pull each others hair out......
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning
Here is an easier one; know what SAEDA means? I mean, most units have posters about SAEDA all over the cantonment area.
Actually, I'm having more fun than a kid pulling the legs off a fly.
Give up? SAEDA = subversion and espionage directed against the U.S. Army, and deliberate security violations. It is a program which helps soldiers of all ranks and jobs know what to look for to detect enemy operatives gather intelligence on an Army installation.
Actually, if you are a detail oriented person, you will note that at each "skip" there has been new information, all supporting the premise that weasel gurl is a liar. Some people cannot learn in a normal way. Some people NEED the "koan" and the monk's bitch slap when they offend the truth. Weasel gurl can dish it out but "he" cries when it's turned back onto "him". I'm not doing anything to "him" that "he" hasn't done, repeatedly, to others all over the web. There is only one effective response to a bully and that's to stand and give them what they wanted to give you. Like ALL libTURDS cornflake boy is a whiny HYPOCRITE COWARD. Do you want me to quit making "him" cry here?
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
You read the web real good faggot. Or did you get your caregiver to look it up for you? Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? I'm REALLY enjoying showing what a dishonorable LYING libTURD creep you are cornflake gurl! Even the scum sucking insane libTURDS at DU don't think much of you, in fact they think that you are a LIAR. LOL! THAT'S really got to sting, when DU thinks that you are a LYING faggot creep you've got a real problem, well IF you are a craven LYING libTURD like you are faggot. the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Heh, you sound like Custer being happy at being surrounded because now his men can see the enemy clearly. Your knowledge of combat arms Acromyms is seriously hurting if you think SOP is a difficult thing to wrap one's brain housing group around. ;-D
LOL! "Man" I'm so IMPRESSED by your caregiver's research abilities! Was he in the service? Because you sure were not faggot. Do you know what "wannabe lubber" means faggot? Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? I'm REALLY enjoying showing what a dishonorable LYING libTURD creep you are cornflake gurl! the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Sally's come and gone at eLPee and your re-opus is still up. Guess you told her a thing or three too, aye? ;-D
Is that like SNAFU or FUBAR????
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning
That's easy, it means Mad Dog.
Yep, exactly ;-D
Do you know what "wannabe lubber" means faggot? How about "wannabe cheechako"? But first since this is live radio ... Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? I'm REALLY enjoying showing what a dishonorable LYING libTURD creep you are cornflake gurl! Even the scum sucking insane libTURDS at DU don't think much of you, in fact they think that you are a LIAR. LOL! THAT'S really got to sting, when DU thinks that you are a LYING faggot creep you've got a real problem, well IF you are a craven LYING libTURD like you are faggot. the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
One of my all time favorites is 'AAAAAA, the Association for the Abolition of Abused Abbreviations and Asinine Acronyms.'
LOL! What you going to do faggot? TALK me to death? Is that how you "got" "your" "cib" faggot? You whined and talked sane people to death? Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
LOL! What you going to do faggot? TALK me to death? Is that how you "got" "your" "cib" faggot? You whined and talked sane people to death? Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
LOL! A simple NO would be fine faggot. LOL! What you going to do faggot? TALK me to death? Is that how you "got" "your" "cib" faggot? You whined and talked sane people to death? Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
And if you see a AAWSSC, which is an 'Army Atomic Weapons Systems Safety Committee,' and it is made up only of 'butter bars' (Second Lt.s), run for your life. As we said in the Army, there is nothing more dangerous that a Butter Bar with a map and compass leading the patrol. [I had to mine my copy of AR 310-50 for that one]
lol You better watch it or Mad Dog will send you another nasty Personal Mail direct from Sarah Palin's inner sanctum. Evidently the 72 hours is up and he's back out of jail.
"http://first-draft-blog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5ced53ef0148c7a28c4b970c-320wi"
Heh, I just won a bet with my sister who didn't think I could keep MD spinning this long. Life is good.
GAD, don't you know it. As Dennis Hopper's character from 'Apocalypse Now' would say; "Bad things man, bad things...."
LOL! This is where faggot mikey tries to talk like "he" knows anything, and TRIES to pull his little coven of pre teen gurl gambit. Where the tutu wearing little gurls gossip and "talk trash" just as if they had a pair, kinda. Faggot mikey is like a book, each page is numbered, and it always "reads" in order. the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex. Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
I would have to obey Murphy's Law of Combat were I to ever be in a fixed fighting position and MD wanted to jump in and familiarize himself with the position's range card. One of the most important tenants of that law is to never share a foxhole with someone crazier than you.
LOL! The gibbering libTURD COWARD, (that's you wreck), gets real brave around it's dick licker master, (that'd be faggot mikey), eh wreck? Where, and when, and in which branch, did YOU serve in again wreck? Oh yeah ... you saw "Band of Brothers" once eh pussy?
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Sixty posts, I'm ready for at least a hundred; you game?
LOL! Gotta go to work faggot Mikey! The log truck just showed up! BUMMER! I was having FUN bitch slapping you down you lying faggot. Oh well ... it's not like YOU are going anywhere else is it faggot? the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex. Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
A Purple Heart generally just shows someone was smart enough to think of a plan, dumb enough to try it, and then lucky enough to survive. Wouldn't you agree M Doggie Dawg?
No worries. By the time that happens, the timber has been cut and yarded off the unit.
LOG TRUCK faggot. LOG TRUCK to unload. But, I'll be BACK faggot. Don't cry. LMAO!!!!!!!!!
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Indeed you are right, I am waiting for my sister to get done with what she is doing on her computer here at the cypercafe. I do appreciate the entertainment MD. It's not often I find a living straw man like you who is dumber than a contrived one.
Ewwwww....... Shit M. Doggie Dawg, go pinch your loaf without the announcement next time.
Mad Dog really becomes psychotic when a vet dies and others pay him tribute....
"http://first-draft-blog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5ced53ef0148c7a28c4b970c-320wi"
Oh yes, I've watched his energy vampire act on eLPee. He is scary when he's feasting vicariously on the glory - real or percieved - of others.
? You pitiful faggot, you just can't help yourself, can you faggot? Excrement is your "god". SPRUCE LOG TRUCK TRUCK LOADED WITH SPRUCE LOGS LOGS DEAD and DYING TREES LIMBED topped and STACKED in LOG BUNKS You foul excrement ingesting libTURD faggot.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
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#32. To: Ferret Mike (#26)
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#34. To: Ferret Mike (#27)
#35. To: A K A Stone (#29)
#36. To: A K A Stone (#33)
"I have no opinion on this matter. I was just lifting the needle."
#37. To: A K A Stone (#29)
I think this thread has a scratch in it. Here let me lift the needle.
#38. To: Mad Dog (#34)
#39. To: CZ82 (#37)
"Nawww, leave them alone I like watching them pull each others hair out......"
#40. To: Mad Dog (#34)
#41. To: A K A Stone (#29)
I think this thread has a scratch in it. Here let me lift the needle.
#42. To: Ferret Mike (#30)
#43. To: Mad Dog (#41)
"Do you want me to quit making "him" cry here?"
#44. To: Ferret Mike (#38)
#45. To: Mad Dog (#42)
#46. To: Ferret Mike (#43)
if you think SOP is a difficult thing to wrap one's brain housing group around.
#47. To: Mad Dog (#44)
Do you know what "wannabe lubber" means?
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#49. To: Ferret Mike (#40)
#50. To: CZ82 (#46)
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#55. To: Ferret Mike (#50)
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One of my all time favorites is 'AAAAAA, the Association for the Abolition of Abused Abbreviations and Asinine Acronyms.'
#56. To: CZ82 (#46)
#57. To: Rek (#55)
"You better watch it or Mad Dog will send you another nasty Personal Mail direct from Sarah Palin's inner sanctum."
#58. To: CZ82 (#54)
#59. To: Rek (#55)
#60. To: Rek (#55)
#61. To: Mad Dog (#58)
#62. To: Ferret Mike (#59)
#63. To: Mad Dog (#60)
#64. To: Mad Dog (#62)
"The log truck just showed up!"
#65. To: Ferret Mike (#61)
#66. To: Mad Dog (#62)
"Oh well ... it's not like YOU are going anywhere else is it...?
#67. To: Mad Dog (#65)
"LOG TRUCK to unload."
#68. To: Ferret Mike (#57)
GAD, don't you know it. As Dennis Hopper's character from 'Apocalypse Now' would say; "Bad things man, bad things...."
#69. To: Rek (#68)
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