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‘Brave Warrior’: Hear a Heartbroken Grandmother Tell CNN Why Her Fallen Navy SEAL Did Not Fear Death

Fallen Navy SEAL Aaron Carson Vaughns Grandmother Talks to CNN

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Elite Navy SEALs member Aaron Carson Vaughn had asked the military to return him to combat and shipped out just six weeks before he was killed when a U.S. military helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, killing 38, including 22 SEALs.

Vaughn’s grandmother, Geneva Vaughn of Union City, Tenn., told The Associated Press on Saturday that her grandson, a Tennessee native, had wanted to be a SEAL since he was a child and returned to combat just two weeks after his 2-month-old daughter was born this summer.

Geneva Vaughn says he was already a decorated fighter when he was asked by the Navy to return stateside to become an instructor. He chafed under the assignment and applied to SEAL Team 6. Military authorities notified the family of his death.

Editor’s note: The most powerful part of this interview begins at the 1:44 mark in the video.  The partial transcript below doesn’t fully capture the poignancy of the live television moment:

CNN:

“As a brave warrior, Aaron was brave. But yet, he was a gentle man,” Geneva Carson Vaughn told CNN.

Fallen Navy SEAL Aaron Carson Vaughns Grandmother Talks to CNN

“He loved his family. He loved his country and he was willing to give his life to protect his family and protect his country. He was a great American.”

Her grandson, who turned 30 in June, was stationed in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and had been in the service for about eight years, she said.

She recalled one of the last conversations she had with him.

“I told him to be careful and he said, ‘Granny, don’t worry about me.‘ He said ’I‘m not afraid because I know where I’m going if something happens to me.’ Aaron was a Christian and he stood firm in his faith,” she said, her voice heavy with emotion.

“He’s with the Lord now, and I’ll see him again some day.”

Fallen Navy SEAL Aaron Carson Vaughns Grandmother Talks to CNN

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  • jakartaman
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:20am

    We as a country have lost some of our best of the best!
    Not just good warriors but good men period!
    I too know where these young men are -In GODS loving embrace!

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    • Seasoldier
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:22am

      For all these, my brothers in arms, I pray that God will grant them the reward they have earned. For Jesus, Himself, said: “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:12-13). In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

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    • pattybbb1
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:32am

      Godspeed to Aaron and all the other brave souls, and their families.

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:40am

      I am so sad because we have lost so many brave warriors. I too know they are with the Lord. The Lord has claimed some of the Best or the Best.May the Lord comfort all the ones they left behind. Thank
      all you Great Men for fighting and protecting This Great Country We don’t Thank you enough for what
      you are doing for us. They have made the ultimate sacrifice for the Country they love. We have truly lost an awful this week.Please God walk with all our Soldiers they are so Brave. The Nation Weeps for our Great lost.

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    • shazam3
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:31am

      Vaya con dios, our Brothers.

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    • JustaThought
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:41am

      Amen and Amen to all of the good words spoken here.

      To those who choose to use this report to spew your hate and lies … shame on you! Are you too ignorant and so callous not to know there are times and places when you leave your hatred and prejudices behind and instead give thanks for men and women like this young, brave, selfless warrior who righteously stands tall and strong in the way of those who would try to take away our precious, God given and richly blessed Freedoms and Rights?

      If I may paraphrase John 15:13 … There is no greater love than a man lay down his life for a stranger. Rest in Peace, Aaron Carson Vaughn, for though our hearts are breaking … your love for God and Country brings inner Peace to us all.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 12:02pm

      Tears for these brave souls. God bless all of our men in harm’s way. For these specially trained men who truly deserve our thanks and prayers, “Job well done, good and faithful Servant.” God Bless.

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    • boomboom
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 12:32pm

      Why were they ALL on the same copter?
      Is that normal?

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 12:55pm

      “…He stood firm in his faith”…May God Bless his family and comfort them in their grief…

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    • G3L
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 1:04pm

      You are in our prayers as well as your family, and for all the families who lost love ones on that chopter. The loss in the SEAL community is great, to all SEAL members you are in our prayers. GOD SPEED, and thank you for all your service. If we can help the families in any way let us know. That is the least we can do. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 1:51pm

      Lay down his life for a stranger?He didn’t go there with bread and roses but with bombs and guns! He went there to blow the arms and legs off of men ,women and children-in one of the most backward and poorest people on earth.I know ,I know ,you believe if you use the word“ freedom” when those bombs are falling on the men,women and children then somehow you’re conforming to Christ.The freedom fighters alquada believe they’re conforming to God too when they fight to liberate their homelands from soviet invasion or american backed dictators or american invasions.You hide behind nationalism and religion when you drop your murdering bombs even as you denounce them for same.[and of course we messed in their homelands via colonialism,zionism,and american proxy regimes] The people of afghanistan [i don't care how backward their religion is]have the right to fight back when invaded!]My solidarity is with the afghan people who we are waging war against ,using bombs to blow the arms and legs off of native men women and children!Shame on the americans!What is vile is your glorification of your mass murdering terrorists as you hypocritically denounce them for being violent and labeling any one who calls you on it as unamerican.If being pro american means being pro mass murder and torture which is what you americans are doing then nothing is more vile then americanism. If that is the case i’m a proud anti-american. As is the civilized world. You don’t own the world and its people

       
    • isaacty
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 2:13pm

      May God be with their families! Thank you all for your service and protecting our country!

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 2:43pm

      GOD BLESS THEIR FAMILIES and WELCOME OUR BEST INTO HEAVEN WITH OPEN ARMS.

      FIRST WIN.

      THAT should be our outcry. FIRST WE WIN.

      Commies and Marxists must have infiltrated the PENTAGON, we know they are swarming all over the Capital. The US State Department is a hot bed of COMMIES and MARXIST and McCain type
      weak limp wrist… “can’t we all just get along” brain washed (he was) ANTI-AMERICAN pawns of Satan.

      FIRST we WIN. We can do the PR and helping out later…but FIRST WE WIN. ANY GENERAL or PRESIDENT who doesn’t have that mind-set is NO AMERICAN and does not deserve to be in office.

      IF THIS SACRIFICE of our very best this week doesn’t YELL that out,, then we are doomed and I refuse to my last breath to say “we are doomed”…NO we aren’t. IN the name of all of these wonderful, Brave, Exemplary MEN…. we need to turn AMERICA around. Jail all the traitors. Sweep out all the gutless and we need FEARLESS, GUTSY, TAKE-NO-PRISONERS LEADERS. WE
      NEED SARAH PALIN.

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    • Mairi Kay
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:32pm

      How sad for YOU, Rose-Ellen. Our military personnel are some of our greatest ambassadors. They try with all their might to inflict blows on only enemy combatants, while the enemy they face seek to injure everyone possible……..the enemy will kill dozens of their own innocents to kill just one of ours. There’s a MIGHTY difference between those we fight, and our finest who fight them.
      Our Best give the ultimate sacrifice to try to give others around the globe a CHANCE at what you enjoy EVERY DAY, apparently with no thanks or respect for those who have earned it for you by their blood, sweat and tears of the loved ones they leave behind.
      I respect your right to disagree, but you only prove your own ignorance in your cheap attempt to scorn those who defend you daily. May GOD have Mercy on YOU! Those who have fought and died for you already have GOD’S Reward. You are just pathetic.

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    • Zer0
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:01pm

      @Rose Ellen,

      Lol. You’re a lunatic. Individuals like you tend to forget, the Taliban and Al Qaeda picked this fight (unlike our misguided ventures in Iraq and Libya), we did not. Furthermore, those who go to Afghanistan with bread and roses get decapitated with a dull knife by Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or their supporters. Also, it is not the U.S. military/NATO that are targeting civilians, it is the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The majority of civilian deaths in Afghanistan can be directly attributed to the actions of the jihadists, due to a policy of killing as many men, women, and children, as possible, who are trying to live normal lives, so as to terrorize and destabilize the population.

      If your intention is to end the wars in the Middle East and South Asia, may I suggest you refrain from using wildly inaccurate propaganda? It only serves to galvanize the people against you. Perhaps you should focus on the the financial cost of these wars and their general ineffectiveness. Or maybe you could gain a bit of gumption and travel to Pakistan or Afghanistan with some bread and roses, no?

      I thank the service men and women who have laid down their lives in our defense, and may these SEALs finally find the rest they so deserve.

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    • SShink
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:16pm

      ROSE-ELLEN, you are a disgrace. The thing you fail to understand is that these SEALs were not targeting innocent men/women. They were going after terrorists, people who want to control innocents free will with force and violence.
      Another piece of evidence that liberalism is a mental disorder.
      SHAME ON YOU !

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    • Better Dead Than Red
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 5:56pm

      Rose Ellen, you must belong to the Westboro baptist church. Go away.

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    • IntransigentMind
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:05pm

      @SSHINK: of course they weren’t, but that’s the trouble with the left:
      http://markamerica.com/2011/08/07/rules-of-engagement-betraying-our-troops/

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    • davecoolworld
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:04pm

      ROSE-ELLLEN….words can’t describe how disgusting you are. You wasted all that time, mispellings, poor grammar and bad syntax to show how truly ugly you are. Actually, you proved how ugly you are by the second sentence. The rest of your rediculous diatribe was just sad. How sad for you.

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    • johnannegalt
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:07pm

      I’m so sad to hear this. I can‘t help but feel those Taliban members may have already been dead if we had different ’rules of engagement’..

      “The number of US casualties has been on a steady and disconcerting climb over the last several months, in what can be taken as a signal of the growing threat from this nearly invincible enemy. Our own rules of engagement may have come to be the cause of more battle casualties in Afghanistan than any other single factor. One may wonder, given our catch-and-release policy, if the insurgents responsible for this shoot-down may have been in our custody before. It’s a shameful reminder of why most liberals who have come of age since WWII should never be entrusted with the nation’s defenses, or at the top of the military chain of command. In this time of grief over our fallen heroes, let us dedicate a moment’s reflection to the purpose of reducing the number who will surely join them.” –M.A.

      http://markamerica.com/2011/08/07/rules-of-engagement-betraying-our-troops/

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:54pm

      I was in afghanistan in the 70′s just prior to the soviet invasions. it was like going back to biblical days. There was hardly any food in winter,diluted soup and it was freezing and children were so poor they were out with bare feet in the freezing cold. In the summer their was plenty of food[fresh fruits].The women were wearing burqas-it is part of the culture -not a taliban invention] While there i got sick and went to the local hospital. They told me the supplies and medicines had not arrived yet from the USSR so they had no medicine to treat a cough..Sure they kill collaborators with the invaders-all people do when invaded . Alquada was a group ,not a regime,state, or government or a people. We have used bombs on villages and people .Whether you call them taliban or whatever they are the people of afghanistan and we invaded them through bombs. No one hurt me when i went there as a western female. I didn’t go there with guns and bombs.On the contrary i was treated with kindness and much hospitalityAnd they never said anything anti-america.i was surprised how well the merchants spoke english and whatever other language western tourists spoke.You are committed to the belief you can murder people with impunity then when you get some blow back you complain they’re violent.It’s self serving and shows a willfil disregard for putting yourself in the place of the war torn invaded backward afghans. I side with the victims-the afghans and the iraqis. Alquada is not them .

       
    • GBMBulletsSKNRD
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:33pm

      Rose Ellen,

      I don’t normally say things like this but in this instance I will make an exception.

      I would like to stab you in the eye to make you conpletely blind. There is an impressive place in hell just for you.

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    • DEFNDEROFTRUTH
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:20pm

      ROSE-ELLEN,

      Enough has been said already on the shame you bring to you and your family, so I will not waste waste words elaborating. I merely have a suggestion for you. If we Americans are so terrible, so bloodthirsty, so evil we do not blink an eye at the “mass murdering” we commit, do us all a favor? LEAVE. Go live among your beloved Afghanies, or wherever you please, but just leave. We Americans believe in fighting back when we are attacked, and thousands of innocent men and women are killed because of two planes being flown into the Twin Towers. We’d be fools not to retaliate.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:42pm

      Yes there is a Heaven, even after death.

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    • dorightfearnothing
      Posted on August 8, 2011 at 3:38pm

      Amen.

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    • newrepublic7
      Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:24pm

      My God rest them in peace. We should all bow our head, we have lost hero’s and patriots today.

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on August 9, 2011 at 1:18pm

      Aaron Vaughn, was one of the 22 Navy Seals that lost their lives in Afghanistan last Saturday. Each died in the service of their country. Vaughn and his fellow Seals from Seal Team 6 were among the bravest of the brave. The loss of 31 military men was a tragedy beyond words to describe but each of these courageous men went down standing up ! It was a good and honorable death.

      Men like Aaron Vaughn is the main reason I believe the USA is still the land of the free and the home of the brave. As a former USA Marine that fought in Korea and Vietnam, I know I can safely lay my head on my pillow each night because men like Aaron Vaughn are guarding the wall. To ALL our military men and women I salute you and thank you for your service.

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  • mikenleeds
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:15am

    i thank god everyday to allow me to serve him as a Christian ,,,

    if anything happens to me i ll see you on the other side …

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 12:50pm

      See you there, hon.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:15pm

      And we thank God daily for your service, may He watch over and protect you, and your band of brothers. May the good you are trying to do, by protecting the innocent while rooting out the evil, be fruitful.
      May God see that your sacrifice is not in vain. Comfort and prayers to all those who’ve lost loved ones.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:44pm

      it’s heaven for us alive or dead.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:36am

      Nothing is more shameful then americans invading and torturing and murdering empoverished afghans or iraqis because a group gave you blow back for your unjust disregard for individual human rights when you propped up brutal dictators for cheap oil,military bases and cold war interests. And your violent fantasies against anyone who calls you out on your massmurdering policies belies your belief in human rights and if you’re christian your claim to be following Jesus. You’re real religioin is american nationalism,- the biggest threat to mankind on the planet today as you attempt to dictate to the world what they should believe about you ;free to bomb and torture anyone who disagrees with you.You are the world’s biggest mass murdering terrorists and so thin skinned in your arrogance and hubris.It’s so cool watching and hearing you violate your self proclaimed but always false narrative about yourselves.The world belongs to all its’ peoples not to america ,you‘re not God and your fancy weapons don’t change that. Long live indigenous freedom fighters who resist american invaders and occupyers and long live the arab spring which is happening in spite of not because of american unjust meddling.Those americans in iraq died for naught as the arab spring reveals!The more you glotiffy your military the more you know you’re covering up for mass murderers!Standard narrartive of hyper militaristic fascist nationalism.You spent trillions in 10yrs wars and have nothing to show for

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on August 9, 2011 at 1:42pm

      REPLY TO ROSE-ELLEN
      The brave military men and womem you speak so badly of are the reason you can write the trash you posted on The Blaze. My generation of Marines had Jane Fonda, “Hanoi Jane” or to we Marines who fought in Vietnam “The Hanoi Hore”. Your crap sounds just like her‘s back in the 1960’s. If you think so highly of Afghanistan and Al-Queda, why don’t you go there and fight beside them, you coward !

      Yea, the USA military forces are bombing our enemy that attacked us in NYC and Washington DC on September 11, 2001 killing over 3000 innocent victims. Why aren’t you grieving for them ? Why aren’t you defending their rights. People like you make me vomit. You enjoy the freedoms and privileges that you have but then you attack those who provide them for you.

      How dare you speak ill of all the brave men who died in the service of their country last Saturday. You don’t have the right to judge them or attack them for bravely serving their country and making the supreme sacrifice. What have YOU done for your country ? You complain and bitch about America and freedom that over 300 million Americans enjoy and are very grateful to have. If America is so bad, please leave and go to whatever Utopian Paradise or Shanga-La you want. I think I’ll stay right here in America to do my best to defend it from people like you. Kiss my Marine Corps A_ _ Rose-Ellen.

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  • gsplgtr
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:05am

    Through the prompting of the CNN reported, A.C. Vaughn‘s grandmother gave out too much personal information on her grandson’s family. That being said, Hoorah A.C. Vaugh, Job Well Done! And let me say an AMEN to Granny Vaughn for her witness to the world about our Lord and Savior. To you as well, job well done.

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    • DonaldH
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:44am

      Hooyah!!!
      I never met one of you on that 47 but I knew you all.
      If my surgery goes well in the morning I will return to Little Creek for yours as well as everyone’s memorial when it is decided.. We’ll regroup on the other side someday, keep one cold for me.

      Son of a Bitch, this one kinda hurts worse then the rest

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    • digeration
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:24am

      Bless our hearts <3… when people are walking in faith, living by faith, and know the 1 in charge then there is no place in the heart for fear. Sad things happen if the Father ((( always in the control seat ))) allows it to. If so, evil may decide to have a field day. One way to stop the chaotic whiles of evil is by staying close to #1.

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    • StrongWesternbabeluvinherWesternMAN
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 1:51pm

      Yes I thought the same thing GSP. Though I applaud the sincerity of this news piece, this grandmother was grieving, so it is the responsibility of the each news organization to THINK ahead about the safety of the families of the SEALS. We must all understand that America is full of lil rat nest pocket cells of those in blind allegiance to the Taliban radical Muslims.
      Thank you to the families of all who sacrifice their children, brothers, husbands, fathers, mothers and sisters for all of us Americans.
      -and may Jesus give peace and strength to all the families of the fallen-

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:07pm

      I’m not anti-gay so i don’t support the baptist church protesters.[Though i would love to see anti-war protesters at those funerals of those who signed up to murder afghans or iraqis]. To me nothing is more ugly then this glorification of the military and of your wars of agression against people. Of course anyone who doesn’t go along will be demonized as you dehumanize those poor afghans.Standard war mongering nationalist propaganda.I stand with the victims of your bombs,seals ,drones and all your hi tech murdering war machine.That to me is ugly;you manufacture sorrow!They are defending themselves and yout invassion unleashed as you predited civil war as it would here if we were invaded and occupied.You never cared about their backwardedness prior to your shock and awe hence it’s a lame excuse for mass murder!

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:29pm

      @rose ellen
      re : That to me is ugly;you manufacture sorrow!They are defending themselves and yout invassion unleashed as you predited civil war as it would here if we were invaded and occupied.You never cared about their backwardedness prior to your shock and awe hence it’s a lame excuse for mass murder!
      ***
      Shock and awe, was a press made up term for the invasion of Iraq! Too bad you didn’t keep the two fronts straight. We went into Iraq with a totally different mindset than Afghanistan, and at the time we started, we had the support of the majority of the Afghany people. It was after we didn’t take out the Taliban leaders, and they came back to threaten and intimidate the villagers that, this turned. If we’d have gone in totally and could truly root the terrorists out, you’d see a totally different attitude. Most of the hatred is from pipelined in terrorists from other countries. Thus it has always been that these thugs keep the people of this country poor. If we had different ROE‘s they’d be free to speak openly and our “Liberators” would be better appreciated.
      May God bless the effort of the fallen, and give us leaders, that will truly “Liberate” the people that all the blood shed might not be in vain!

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    • schmite123oh
      Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:56am

      @rose ellen How do you feel about the revolutionary war? How do you feel about WWII? The notion that war is 100% wrong for both sides is a messed up chemically induced high. War is necessary to combat evil in this world. about time you recognize that before their is no longer Good to protect you from an Evil that the world may bring to your home. Grow up please.

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  • nightmar
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:05am

    great words from a hero, as i sit here getting ready to enjoy a great sunday, hit the gym and see my kids i could only cry reading this and knowing these incredible men will not do it as well, but i stand frimly that they are in a better place now, and that is the only thing that can help make sense. to the boys who we lost for now, we will see you again, and please watch how the vengence honoring your lives plays out, we hope you approve. we will miss you, god please bless them eternally.

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    • chris3
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:18pm

      can’t seem to get in on rose ellen,but I wish she would just give daniel pearl a kiss on her way to hell,I‘m not a right wing christen and can’t even spell in my state of diss beliefe? where are you from?no, don’t answer that just get your but in a sp unit and see! or take a bikini clad stroll through kubul you naive idiot!

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on August 8, 2011 at 10:01am

      From other countries? It’s always a moving target with you invaders! That’s because once in a country you come face to face with the humanity of people you demonized in the build up to war. hence once there,instead of admitting you are at war with the population who resist invasion and occupation,you find another boogy man-the foreign partisans come to help their brothers resist invasion and occupation.Americans should be on trial for invading iraq and for the mass murder and torture against the afghans-the poorest most backward people on earth.Nothing is more ugly then what you have done murdering iraqis and backward afghans already in crisis after the soviet invasion. The ugly american is the face of the terrorist US military.Keep telling yourselves you’re keeping us free here;you’re freedoms have never been threatened by afghans,iraqis or any muslims.As militaristic hypernationalist [american nationaalism is your true religion today] agressors- your mind set today is reminiscent of the nazis- that‘s how you justify it to yourselvesYou want to control the peoples of the world and they’re resisting you- as is their right as indigenous people in their homelands!Glorify your killers all you wantI I’m a free human being and my loyalty is to my conscience-not to your militaristic nationalism.The world does not belong to you and I can believe what ever I want about you and express it-in spite and not because of your wars.Therr should be war crimes trials for your mili

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  • CANDLEMAKER
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:04am

    God Bless these Soldiers who have given ALL for our Country!! To the families that have lost loved ones…please know this…..We are so sorry for your loss and we are praying for you!! May God comfort you in this trying time!! This country is here only BECAUSE of the sacrifices of our BELOVED SOLDIERS!!! THIS IS WHY WE HAVE OUR FREEDOMS AND LIBERTY FOLKS!!!! OUR Soldiers DESERVE our RESPECT and TOTAL SUPPORT!!!! The blood of our Soldiers lie in countries ALL OVER THE WORLD so that our Country can breathe FREE !! That is why so many people YEARN to come to our wonderful Country!!!! IF YOU DON’T HAVE A FLAG FLYING IN YOUR FRONT YARD, GET TO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND GET IT UP TODAY!!! MINE IS FLYING PROUDLY EVERY DAY BECAUSE I LOVE OUR COUNTRY AND OUR FREEDOM!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

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  • batteredtaxpayer
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:56am

    I cried when I heard the news. My prayers are with those guys and their families. I know the remaining guys will bring down vengeance on the enemy.

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    • ontheclock247
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:14am

      Unfortunately, they are under the “command” of a leader who would rather see the destruction of our military than the enemy’s. Pray for the protection of our soldiers. Pray for their families. Pray for a leader who does the same!

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    • Riptides
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:59am

      I cried too.
      As a Christian I still find it hard to understand why tragedies like this happen.
      I pray for them and their families for their devastating loss.

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  • ashestoashes
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:45am

    To all the famillies and loved ones of Seal Team 6, we are so very sorry for your loss. We are deeply saddened by it and we are very grateful for their service to this country. May God’s peace rest upon you.

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  • Time Rebel
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:43am

    I had nearly lost faith in this world. The economy has been in a crisis for such a long time & I’ve terribly worried about the future for our young people, including my own children & grandchild. Young men (and women) of faith like this, willing to give everything, including their lives, to protect America, it rekindles my faith. During yesterday’s prayer event at Reliant Stadium, which I participated in via live stream from 10 am to 5:45 pm, through a steady stream of tears (I could not stop), I witnessed thousands of young people praying, worshiping & interceding for America – well; that rekindled my faith too! We have spiritual warriors & we have literal warriors, both prepared to battle. Let us have more faith in our young people, Lord. Let us remember your promises.

    “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Acts 2:17-21

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    • BlazerMan
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:28pm

      @TIME REBEL; I very thoroughly agree with your comments about the young soldier who has no fear to show that he is willing to stand up for what he believes in, and what he is willing to fight for.

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  • Thighmaster
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:26am

    We can never repay these brave soldiers for their ultimate sacrifice, thank you all for your service to our country. It’s time for the elected officials to unleash the full power and potential of our military or bring them home. Stop fighting a political war and let them fight like it’s a real war… and stop selling weapons to those who find a use for them against us….

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  • GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:25am

    Dear ignorant masses,
    Praise God for his infinite wisdom, for this country will continue to falter as it has the past ten years until the public comes to deal w/ the big lie our fed gov and MSM have perpetuated on us.
    Just look at the dust, it is composed of 40million cubic feet of bed rock granite rearranged by fission heat.
    You (the public & media) keep denying it, and we keep traveling down this road to self destruction.

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    • Michael
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:58pm

      @GROUNDZERO IS NUCLEAR DEMOLITION X3
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:25am

      Umm…I think your tin-foil hat is askew.

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  • BellaMia7
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:22am

    This is the risk they faced everyday over 10 years. How many of us would have the courage to fly in helos over enemy territory and be prepared to die. To our enemies, I would say – We have many more where these come from. Batten down the hatches it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

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    • digeration
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 12:08pm

      Go get ‘em! You’re all in my prayers. Doing nothing, solves nothing. The Great Commander of Heaven’s Armies will be right there with you… and knowing the outcome beforehand, will guide your path. Trust Jesus always. I do!

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  • swabby222
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:06am

    GW, sad commentary, just sad! Thank God for men like these who valiantly give all daily, and gave all yesterday. Now lets defeat these bastards and get the hell out of there already.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:20am

      another brave soldier, he reminds me of Pat Tillman

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    • Watchingtheweasels
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:29am

      That’s the catch, isn’t it? What does “defeat these bastards” mean exactly? We expelled the Taliban from power years ago. Now we’re engaged in missionary work, trying to convert Afghanistan into a democracy. Do we even understand war anymore? Do we understand that the Marshall Plan will not work in Islamic nations? Do we understand that we can’t afford it?

      Perhaps a more sane strategy for war is to break your enemy and leave…and if they pop up again, break them again. Spending soldiers lives and american treasure trying to rebuild that rathhole is not worth it.

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  • Sara72
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:03am

    God Bless this family and all those that have suffered such a great loss… I will also say that I really feel something isnt right about this.

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    • Thighmaster
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:29am

      you are so right, this stinks but what can you expect from a government that arms a drug cartel so they can disarm it’s citizens….

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    • Bro Geo Too
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:46am

      There does seem to be something fishy about this incident. I am afraid that somewhere up the chain of command lies a rat who sacrificed our heroes.

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    • 65Mustang
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:14am

      I hope our great, educated fool of a president and all his lefties are enjoying this great loss of human courage. Our country continues to lose great men and women of valor.

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  • AFPatriot
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:45am

    While I grieve for the families of our fallen warriors. I wish that the media and general public would keep this in mind. Their families are vulnerable right now and i feel that some in the media are trying to exploit these families. These men are the best of the best of the best and as such have participated in operations that no one will ever know about. Remember that after the raid on Osama all these men asked for was protection for their families. In that light I feel it highly irresponsible for any media outlet to put any family member of our fallen warriors into the public light. For CNN to put on air the grandmother of one of our fallen warriors on tv for all the world to see is stupid at best. While I understand the publics’ interest in this tragic story. We should all send our thoughts and prayers to their families and leave the identities and details unknown. We the people should rest in the knowledge that the nation experienced a lost that will reverberate for years. God Speed warriors and may the Lord comfort and keep your families in the hollow of His hand.

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    • shirelover
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:14am

      I agree with you 100 %. These families need prayer, not media attention.

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    • Marylou7
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:17am

      My heart can’t stop weeping.

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    • Shellback
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 12:00pm

      Sean, Glenn, and Rush all have charities that help support the families left behind. My prayers are with those families.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 2:08pm

      These men are manipulated brainwashed drones. Brainwashed with hubris and with the real religion of 21stc america-americanism. We have truned it into a nazi like mentality -totalizing good vs. evil where the ends justify the means and we wage war on people not regimes or nation states and their militaries. They take God’s name in vain every time they mention Jesus to validate their invasions, torture and mass murder of men women and children,which has been going on for 10 yrs. now and where 1- 2 milion people have been murdered. and more displaced and wounded by americans and their lackeys and the strife caused by invading and occupaying murdering americans.They may believe in Jesus [like money in the bank] but there is nothing Christ like about joining the military to drop bombs on iraqis or afghans.

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    • BrownWaterVet
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 5:59pm

      Rose-Ellen:

      I have read your posts today and yesterday. Are you an American living in the USA? Many times your comments appear that you are not from or in the USA, much hatred from you against America. Since 1776 the US Military (all inclusive) is the one that has protected your right & freedom to spout your crap. Perhaps you should get off your lazy ass & go to Afganistan to help those people!

      Semper Fortis

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    • AFPatriot
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:58pm

      Rose-Ellen I post this to you directly. I pray for your soul. I pray that the light of the Lord God on high shine down upon you and soften your hardened heart. For you see my friend I fear for your soul because of the hatred you spew forth. You my friend chose to lash out at people who have no ill will toward anyone. They were men just doing their job and while however grotesque you think their job may be these are men who stand in the gap day in and day out willing to lay down their life when called on by their country they serve. If you want to lash out at some one lash out at those who are all too quick to rush to war. For you see those men are not the men that paid the highest price for your freedom to denigrate their service. For you see anyone that serves in uniform does not take joy in going to war. They are not brainwashed into service they do their service out of compassion for their fellow man. They choose to serve because they do know the value of every human life and pray that they will not have to take a life in their service. Our service members do not strap bombs to their chest they do not call out God’s name when when they detonate those bombs surrounded by innocent men women and children. They say a prayer before they go out in the field a prayer of guidance and protection for all they come into contact with. You choose to lash out not out of love but out of pure hate. I pray for your soul as I pray for the comfort of the families of our fallen

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  • bluejay8984
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:44am

    I literally am overcome with emotion over this deal. We have our best dying over there and defending our freedoms and I support the military 110% Drop a bomb on those bastards already. They are crooked, for the most part don’t want us there, and hate the western way of life…I can’t stand seeing so many brave young men and women sent upstairs premature…Its eating away at our nations heart.

    Jonas

    May God Bless All The Families!

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:24pm

      No one ever threatened my rights as an american here in america. More self serving narrative to justify mass murder of civilians. The bigger the crimes the more lauded are the criminals.Nothing is more ugly then your glorification of war and the mass murdering american military.These 10yr wars are war crimes and crimes against humanity and if there were any justice americans should be on trial for these massmurdering illigal 10yr wars. You can call me every name in the book but the afghans getting their arms and legs blown off by americans and their collaborators know it’s true. You’ve become a millitaristic nationalist nazi like people with your invasions,occupations, pre-emptive wars, demonization of a whole group of people,[muslims] laws that deny their individual human rights and allow for torture etc. Nothing is more ugly then 21stc war mongering americans -the nazis of the 21st c as they have now murdered over 1 milliom people though invasions and occupations and displaced millions more..

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:55pm

      @rose-ellen
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:24pm
      No one ever threatened my rights as an american here in america. More self serving narrative to justify mass murder of civilians. The bigger the crimes the more lauded are the criminals
      ****
      Don’t listen to Al Jazeera do you? All those statement made by Osama and The American Terrorist, along with the rest of their pap, threatens your rights as well as the rest of our’s if you actually are in America; the twin towers had muslims working in them too. Nobody called them to warn away from work before those planes hit! If we hadn’t intercepted the NY subway bomber, people from every nation might have been killed. The plot on the SF Airport, don’t you find any of these a little stifling of your freedom to go these places? Did you notice that 99% of the attacks planned for this country were on civilian targets? Sure they attempt military too, but only 1%. The suicide bombs and IED’s in their own country are as likely to get civilians as the enemy.
      IF YOU‘RE IN AMERICA AND DON’T LOVE IT……SO LONG , NO LOVE SONG, GO THERE… ANYWHERE! America, Love it OR Leave it!!!

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  • david3755
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:40am

    It is said that when an old man dies a library is burned. When an American warrior dies the light of freedom glows a little darker but will soon rise with those who follow in the tradition of the freedom loving elite. You may now rest, faithful servant of liberty, knowing others will pick up the flag and continue the fight.

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    • Marylou7
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:16am

      Amen!

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    • Better Dead Than Red
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 5:51pm

      What a great quote!! So true!

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on August 8, 2011 at 10:53am

      They attack american civilians because we hide our military behind them too. Give them drones,night vision goggles and they’ll target your bases. And the only reason they want to target america at all-is not because of your religion but because of your policies of propping up proxy dictators who murdered their own people which benefitted us but obviously not the people[hence the uprisings now going on there].For cheap oil. military bases and cold war anti-leftists interests we propped up dictators who, allowed us to have bases and cheap oil and where dictators murdered all leftists or fundamentalists.Those mid east borders were carrved up by western colonialists for western interests which the people there were subjected to. Your self serving narrative that we were peacefuly minding our own busuness and because we are free and becaause we are not muslim they suddenly decided to attack the US is ridiculous on its face and denies our unjust meddling where the individual human rights of those people was subservient to our need for oil,military bases and anti-soviet proxys.They rose up and alquada was the first salvo to liberate their people from foreign unjust meddling. Your religion had nothing to do with it except in so far as their prrimary identity is as muslim /arabs and our meddling effected them so their resistence is called a jihad meaning a defense of their people against our unjust policies.You twist the narrative into a religious war to dismiss your unjust policies

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  • freekazoid
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:34am

    I am saddened for any fallen soldier fallen in the line of duty. But this hurts me more. These men have training beyond anything we could have possibly imagine. I would have seen them die in a firefight, or some other way. This is a loss that shouldn’t have happened. I’m sickened by the whole thing and sometimes think, ” Why do we even try anymore?”. But this is why they are their. God be with these men who gave so much, their families, and their friends. Navy seals are the elite of the elite. God Speed the protectors of a free nation.

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  • jungle J
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:34am

    This nation was built on men like him.

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  • hillbillyinny
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:19am

    Strong in Faith, family and focus. Lord, take this, Your sheep, into Your presence and tell him and those with him, “Servant, a job well done.”

    Thank you to this family and other families of the U.S. who give of themselves to defend and protect those of us who cannot serve in this way. God bless.

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    • G.W. Dobbs
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:32am

      He died for naught.
      http://beforeitsnews.com/story/917/461/Inside_Scoop:_31_US_Occupiers_Killed_in_Afghanistan_and_Much_More.html

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    • gunslingerpatriot
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:53am

      GW-
      May the chains of your islamic oppressors weigh lightly on your back. Depart from us, for we neither desire your counsel, or arms, depart knowing that you are not our brother and willing to sacrifice for the cause of freedom.

      As for me, I will stand for freedom and praise God for people that make up our modern military force, so children surfing porn in their mom‘s basement can continue with the ad homien attacks against America’s finest.

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    • natstew
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:37am

      GW, crawl back into your pig sty.

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    • digeration
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:44am

      Mrs. Vaughn… thank you for teaching your grandson (((including us))) the bravery of love, the mystery of the universe, the true meaning of life. I can hear it in your precious voice that bitterness will never have a seat at your table. May there always be room for joy and comfort that will surely remain with you forevermore.

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    • just the facts
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:51am

      @ gw

      Your way out of your league.

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  • SHOWMESTATEGUY
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:08am

    This nation was built on men like him. God have mercy on him and bless his family. I mean that. If you disagree then that’s your problem.

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  • nuclearnavymom
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:04am

    This hero is only one reason I’m glad to be a Tennessean. Please God, hold these brave men and their families in your hand.

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  • drybackinpi
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:51am

    So sad that so many good people must die protecting the rights of pure **** birds in this country.

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  • Fastsam
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:40am

    Thank God for these people that are willing to give it all for our country.

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  • fixer
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:34am

    god bless

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:23am

    Ah, Granny! We real AMERICANS share your tears and your heartbreak. You are not alone! Please tell your precious grandson’s family that we thank them for his selflessness for us. It will be an honor and a privilege to meet him when we get HOME at last. It will be good to meet you, too, for your love and courage influenced him. GOD HIMSELF, BLESS YOU AND WIPE AWAY YOUR TEARS, IN JESUS’ SWEET, SWEET NAME, AMEN.

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:46am

      Their family has it all…God, country and guts. Bless him and his fellow soldiers and their families…I hope to meet them one day when we are called home.

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    • IFreedMyMind
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:52am

      I hope that God truly does bless this family. @KICKAGRANDMA, you are one cold human.

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    • Prov45
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:01am

      Well said and amen.

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    • gunslingerpatriot
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:55am

      Well said KickGrandma.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:09pm

      And we thank God, that the head of a veterans cemetery in TX has not been given control over web sites, and we can pray in the name of His Son and Our Lord Jesus Christ for the comfort of all these grieving loved ones, and thank Thee for their dedication and for their service.
      Does anyone know if any of these are scheduled to be buried in that Tx Veterans Cemetery where they must submit the funeral service for that woman’s approval first?
      As they’ve died for our freedom, Lord, help us to pledge here to find a way that these evil ones be removed from over our veterans, and servicemen/women living and dead.
      Please Lord, God, Bless America Again, and change our individual hearts, that we might become worthy of Thy Blessing!

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