This Week: In Memoriam
By Nicole Belle Sunday Nov 02, 2008 5:00pm
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This Week with George Stephanopoulos marks the passings of the great journalist and champion of the common man Studs Terkel, jazz singer/actress Estelle Reiner and novelist Tony Hillerman. In addition, the Pentagon released the names of five servicemembers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
According the iCasualties, the total number of servicemembers killed in Iraq now totals 4,503. During this same week, Iraq Body Count lists 95 Iraqi civilians killed. For the month of October, 553 Iraqi civilians lost their lives, 26 by US Forces; 33 were children.
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Studs was one of my very favorite authors---he was a stalwart and unrepentant progressive who through his works, told the story of ordinary Americans fighting for justice in an extraordinary way. Thanks for it all Studs---I'm having a cigar and martini in your memory.
What an example Studs was for so many of us. Brilliant, honest, compassionate, and funny. They do not make them like Studs very often. This is one man I always wanted to meet.
Folks there are 48 hours before this Presidential campaign is over. Get out there and pound the pavement, make phone calls, knock on doors, sign up to be an election observer, go to the video the vote website. Do Something for Studs Terkel and for all of the people who have needlessly lost their lives in this bloody war of choice. Let's push folks let's push
studs was a good novelist, and lived to a ripe old age its sorry i am that we all have to die someday, but i mourn more for the men and women whos lives are being wasted in iraq and afganistan for no good reason , if obama goes thru with enlargeing the debacle in afganistan then he becomes the new george w bush, and we the democrats become the new backers of a war criminal!
It is time to bring them all home.
yes calgarylady, its past time!
Obama's got to play the game first. Then maybe something will change. He's our only chance.
if its just playing the game i can live with that but if the game becomes reality then i will be sorry for voteing for him, as i did last week, i want these memorieum threads to vannish except for folks like turkel paul newman and such, the day when thier will be no need for soldiers killed for bush will be a great day !
We're all in this together.
I hope the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and US is completed before jan 20. If the Iraqi's make good on their intentions, the US will lose its strong arm leverage. It should rightfully occur on Bush's watch.
5 soldiers killed and 33 children. 33 children. Not a tear will be shed. Sad. This world is totally f'ed up.
who suffer in the end. And nobody seems to care. It truly makes me sick.
We is sleepin' if we believe in these 'neat' numbers of soldiers released by the media. 5 is it? C'mon.
I mean, isn't an average of 1,000 soldiers per year a bit tidy? There are no doubt tens of thousands more. Doesn't anyone question these oddly unnatural reported numbers? (let's not mention the 750,000-1,000,000 Iraqis report of their dead while we hear a liquified pablum 25,000 since 2004?)
33 children? How many more? Imagine that, while your/our kids text their friends warm and fed, clean and untouched?
Robert Bly discussed the fact that as a country we don't mourn the people we've killed in war far away. That it creates a pool of some pretty strange unconscious material countrywide. Instead we call them the Enemy. He said that 28 years ago. Fuck u.s..
A moment of respect for the forgotten dead. Can you imagine if it was 33 American children? First thing Obama has to do as President- ACKNOWLEDGE THE FALLEN, Don't bring them home in the cover of darkness like Bush does.
for In Memoriam. I remember watching Studs Terkel on the tv. Studs Place and The Great American Dream Machine. His life and his work touched millions.
We say goodbye today to one of the liberal internet's sharpest wits and most decent of men.
Kenny "Clyde" Bolles of www.dubyad40.com was killed in a car wreck Thursday night. He was 46.
Studs Terkel's books were motivators, inspirations, comforters during my HS and college days enduring the uberkkklasses. The world has just lost an underappreciated man whose works should be required reading.
Tony Hillerman's fiction has warmed many an evening. We who are consumed with curiosity about the Code Talkers, the continuing skirmishes between the Hopi, Navajo, and BIA have lost a folk historian and far-off friend.
I hope that the families of our fallen servicemen and women are aware of the respect that we have for the people who are fighting, and supporting fighters against, the international terrorism against humanity and the domestic terrorism against their own wives and families, coldly and methodically practiced by Islamics. We love our armed forces and their supporters1
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