For Soldiers Killed in Iraq, Memory Lives on With Name - on Buildings, Str

[saigon68]

For Soldiers Killed in Iraq, Memory Lives on With Name - on Buildings, Streets


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBRJ4F381E.html

By Chelsea J. Carter The Associated Press
Published: Nov 6, 2004


Gregg Garvey sat on his porch, clutching a photograph of his son and trying to come to terms with the news the 23-year-old soldier was killed in an ambush in Iraq. The father sat for hours, his cheeks wet with tears, staring at a flag pole in the yard of his Keystone Heights, Fla., home. He wondered how he would survive the overwhelming grief, and how many other parents had the same empty feeling.

Slowly, an image began to come to him, the image of a monument at the base of the flag pole. Then it became clearer: It was a statue of a field cross - a soldier's helmet atop a downturned M-16. He could see his son's name, Army Sgt. Justin "Hobie" Garvey, on it. Then he could see more monuments with more names.

"I just looked at the picture of Hobie," recalls the 50-year-old father, "and said, 'Hobie, we've got a lot of work to do.

In honor of his son, killed July 20, 2003, near Tal Afar, Iraq, Gregg Garvey has pledged to erect a bronze field cross statue in the hometown of every soldier killed in Iraq.



On edit I feel bad for this guy---but you know what---he is going to run out of Bronze

[ixion]

1. killing is bad, no matter who does it

I feel bad for the guy who lost his son, but his son was killing people, so you have to feel bad for the families of those people he killed.

Should we name streets after them, too?

[DieboldMustDie]

2. There probably aren't enough streets.

:shrug:

[daleo]

3. His grief has driven him crazy

It sounds like something you might read in ancient Greek play - Sophocles maybe - a parent driven crazy by grief. Building a bronze monument won't make the empty feeling go away, though.

Bush would never allow this anyway.

[saigon68]

4. Kicking