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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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#57. To: Rek (#55)
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!
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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?
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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!
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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!!!!!!!!!
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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.
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Cool. You buiding a copy of the Spruce Goose? ;-D
Forgot how to say Shit?
Goldi if this is really bilge de dildoe, you are a hypocrite and a LIAR. Your "word" means NOTHING. I don't want anything to do with a site that allows posters to call other posters "child molesters" and "child murderers", let alone sexualizing them like sneakyTRASH does. Let me make it easy for you Goldi since your word means nothing. Billie you are a foul cunt, I hear that you love to kidnap little children from your local malls and that you love to rape and torture them before you murder them, and then you make suits from their skins and cups from their skulls. It is also rumored that you like to eat their "tasty bits" pan fried with fava beans and a nice Old English 800. According to my sources you are banned for life from being within 1000 feet of any minor child, and that the next time you go down for child rape, you will be a three time loser and shift to your new career sucking the block's dicks and taking their dicks up your big fat ass. PHUCK you bilge, and PHUCK you Goldi. BAN me you miserable cunt. Do it NOW! Goodbye and good luck to yukon, and ALL of you good people who aren't foul, lying libTURD WHORES, TOOLS, FOOLS and idiots. Keep slapping the enemies of America and truth down! I won't purposely be part of a site such as this. Mad Dog posted on 2011-01-03 22:09:57 ET Reply Trace" Oh yeah ... "dear" bilge de burger, EAT SH!T AND DIE, YOU VILE, INSANE, LOW LIFE SCUM . (THAT ought to work.) Mad Dog posted on 2011-03-07 16:40:08 ET Reply Trace She still has not taken down your re-opus. Bet you can even still log in. Guess you just are not worth taking seriously M. Doggie Dawg. ;-D
. 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.
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. .. 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.
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YAWN ... I'm deeply touched by your concern faggot. /NOT! You pitiful faggot, you just can't help yourself, can you faggot? Excrement is your "god". You foul excrement ingesting libTURD faggot.
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Most of the big spruce trees were in the ORegon cast range and logged to make planes and gliders for the European Theater in WW II. Let's here it for the paratroopers who rode glider to their enemy. ;-D
Actually M. Doggie Dawg, I was taunting you. Seeing as how you are a human tempest in t teapot and a legend in your own same as a human brain only smaller mind.
Goldi if this is really bilge de dildoe, you are a hypocrite and a LIAR. Your "word" means NOTHING. I don't want anything to do with a site that allows posters to call other posters "child molesters" and "child murderers", let alone sexualizing them like sneakyTRASH does. Let me make it easy for you Goldi since your word means nothing. Billie you are a foul cunt, I hear that you love to kidnap little children from your local malls and that you love to rape and torture them before you murder them, and then you make suits from their skins and cups from their skulls. It is also rumored that you like to eat their "tasty bits" pan fried with fava beans and a nice Old English 800. According to my sources you are banned for life from being within 1000 feet of any minor child, and that the next time you go down for child rape, you will be a three time loser and shift to your new career sucking the block's dicks and taking their dicks up your big fat ass. PHUCK you bilge, and PHUCK you Goldi. BAN me you miserable cunt. Do it NOW! Goodbye and good luck to yukon, and ALL of you good people who aren't foul, lying libTURD WHORES, TOOLS, FOOLS and idiots. Keep slapping the enemies of America and truth down! I won't purposely be part of a site such as this. Mad Dog posted on 2011-01-03 22:09:57 ET Reply Trace" Oh yeah ... "dear" bilge de burger, EAT SH!T AND DIE, YOU VILE, INSANE, LOW LIFE SCUM . (THAT ought to work.) Mad Dog posted on 2011-03-07 16:40:08 ET Reply Trace It's still there, and they are posting in that thread as if you were only a whineo that popped into the popstand to do a drunken urination on the store floor. Bet you still can sign on. Too bad you are too chicken to post a thread blasting Sally for having the nerve to not take a tundra toad like you seriously. You knew Sally only gets really pissed at threads like that so you posted this re-opus to show your balls are the size of sweet peas. Well sailor?
Don't you have anything else to do in life but play with a dawg?
You mean, you've never took advantage of a dog that is crazy enough to chase it's own tail Buck? I'm sorry, but I am not as considerate of the crazy among as you.
Mad Dog filtered my posts out because I was brutal with him over the past few months.... as he publically used profane language on just about every post he made to anyone and everyone everywhere under the Sun. If you notice his demeanor, he is infinitely more focused without explicative deleterious commentaries. He has refined his own persona in such a way as to let the Sun shine through.
Yeah, I notice too he keeps his head ensconced so far up his rectal orifice that the sun is a stranger to his peepers.
I'd have to agree with Buck on that one Dog. You make a lot of good points. But when you start cursing a lot. You don't seem the same.
I do understand why you find Mikes politics disturbing though.
Not to mention; what's the damn point of the Re-opus? Are you afraid of the temtation to post an open account brings? Go back there and just post like your normal self and stop trying to posture like you are going to manipulate Sally into banning sneakypete. You know you want to.
You mean, 'Mike's.' And this is typical bait from you aimed at me. And it's disturbing as to how closed minded and myopic your thinking is Stonie. That works both ways.
You mean, 'Mike's.' And this is typical bait from you aimed at me. And it's disturbing as to how closed minded and myopic your thinking is Stonie. That works both ways. Don't take it personally Mike. I think you are ok. But him being a conservative, is going to make him disturbed by your positions. Or he is not going to agree with them. It is a simple truth Mike.
Note, differ, and argue back why this is so is understandable. 'Disturbed' is how the narrow minded put things. It'd a simple truth, Stonie me boy.
Phuckaroo has nothing of value to say about anything imo. You are of course free to do as you will. I put the POS on ignore at your inferred request. IMO "he" is gibbering trash, who threatened my family, and "he" is lucky that all I do is to ignore "him". So I don't have any idea of what you are talking about. Do you mean "sane"? Do you mean because I curse at these vile monsters that I am "insane"? Because man if you do, you should look closer at the gibbering libTURD whores and tools who infest this site and the web in general. These people are not interested in any facts or reasoned debate. They feel free to do anything and say anything to advance their libTURD agenda. These libTURD filth are the blood enemies of America and traditional Americans. THEY ARE OUR ENEMIES. I'm DONE treating them as if they were anything else. I've watched this FILTH destroy this country and culture of my birth for decades. I'm ashamed to say that I haven't fought them tooth and nail every F ing inch. Now their messiah 'king" obammy is doing what THEY WANT. These FILTH are NOT engaging in hyperbole when they speak of KILLING US and AMERICA. This isn't some fucking theoretical debate this is cultural WAR. IF obama care stands they will KILL the elders. That is NOT hyperbole, these FILTH are working to enslave ALL Americans with their loathsome tyranny. You say weasel boy is OK? No "he" is NOT, "he" is libTURD FILTH who has no honesty or honor in him. Such are ALL of these libTURD FILTH. "He" specifically shits on threads designed to HONOR the memories of HONORABLE MEN who have given all to build what this gibbering creep and his ilk want to destroy. These fucking libTURD scum should be very happy that all that I and AMERICANS such as me are currently doing is just cussing at them. BUT, "the worm has turned" and NORMAL folks are NOT going to tolerate these SCUM anymore. "There is a STORM coming", a STORM that these scum are working to cause, and it will sweep this TRASH away before it in a very real way. This is the WAR for AMERICA'S future and soul and very existence, nothing less. It is IMPOSSIBLE to win a WAR that you do not even admit exists. Do as you will of course. But IMO the time for "politeness" towards libTURDS is WAY past. I will NEVER again allow their FILTH to go unchallenged or un-addressed ever again. IF that makes me "crazy" so fucking be it. God Bless America! Chaos, confusion, and slow painful death to ALL TYRANTS and their useful idiots, whores and tools.
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"disturbing"? LMAO!!!!!!! You have quite the talent for understatement Stone.
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. Weasel gurl you are a foul little cowardly lying libTURD faggot. But lucky for US all, that's YOUR problem bitch.
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Is your "really telling the truth now" pilot light on NOW LIAR? I can't see it. No matter ... afterall, you are a self admitted LIAR. Weasel gurl you are a foul beyond mere words little cowardly lying libTURD faggot. But lucky for US all, that's YOUR problem bitch.
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I was using a real special rhetorical technique faggot, it's called SARCASM you gibbering libTURD retard. Weasel gurl you are a foul beyond mere words little cowardly lying libTURD faggot. But lucky for US all, that's YOUR problem bitch.
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LOL! Piss off faggot. Weasel gurl you are a foul beyond mere words little cowardly lying libTURD faggot. But lucky for US all, that's YOUR problem bitch.
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Heh, more like spam and repetitive gibberish. I don't read your posts anyway M. Doggie Dawg. I ca see the small sections you change and a glance gives me all I need to know about what you said. You don't waste my time or energy as a cream puff like you can be checked up on, responded to easily and that's it, But thanks for sharing, and don't forget to keep that car of yours' plugged in up there, ya here? ;-D
LOL! The virgin weasel gurl, the legend in "her" own mind no doubt! LOL! GOOD one! LMAO!
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"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)
#70. To: Ferret Mike (#67)
#71. To: Mad Dog (#70)
"TRUCK LOADED WITH SPRUCE LOGS"
#72. To: Mad Dog (#70)
Excrement is your "god".
#73. To: Mad Dog (#70)
"#171. To: Bill D Berger, Goldi-Lox, yukon, ALL (#162)
#74. To: Ferret Mike (#71)
#75. To: Ferret Mike (#72)
#76. To: Ferret Mike (#73)
#77. To: Mad Dog (#74)
"SPRUCE LOG TRUCK"
#78. To: Mad Dog (#76)
"I'm deeply touched by your concern...."
#79. To: Mad Dog (#76)
"#171. To: Bill D Berger, Goldi-Lox, yukon, ALL (#162)
#80. To: Ferret Mike, Mad Dog (#78)
Actually M. Doggie Dawg, I was taunting you.
#81. To: buckeroo (#80)
"Don't you have anything else to do in life but play with a dawg?"
#82. To: Ferret Mike, Mad Dog (#81)
#83. To: buckeroo (#82)
#84. To: buckeroo, mad dog (#82)
#85. To: Mad Dog, Ferret Mike (#84)
#86. To: A K A Stone, Mad Dog (#84)
#87. To: A K A Stone (#85)
"I do understand why you find Mikes politics disturbing though."
#88. To: Ferret Mike (#87)
"I do understand why you find Mikes politics disturbing though."
#89. To: A K A Stone (#88)
#90. To: A K A Stone (#84)
I'd have to agree with Buck on that one Dog. You make a lot of good points. But when you start cursing a lot. You don't seem the same.
#91. To: A K A Stone (#85)
I do understand why you find Mikes politics disturbing though.
#92. To: Ferret Mike (#86)
#93. To: Ferret Mike (#77)
#94. To: Ferret Mike (#78)
#95. To: Ferret Mike (#79)
#96. To: Mad Dog (#94)
"...called SARCASM....."
#97. To: Ferret Mike (#96)
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