Staff Sergeant Joseph Patrick Goodrich, USMC
My brother Joe was killed in action in Hit, Iraq on July 10.
Its been a rough couple weeks.
First, I want to thank all of you who have written sympathy and support in e-mails. All of you, my friends, and my co-workers have been a big help and I really appreciate it. Ellen has been a great help; there when I needed her and helping me stay centered.
The viewing and the funeral amazed me. Hundreds showed up, not just friends and family, but people that Joe touched and influenced in his life. Every municipality in Allegheny County and the State Police sent police cars to the funeral. The escort from the funeral home to the church was thirty police cars. An amazing show of respect and Joe deserved every minute of it.
I have a few more things to say, but I have to get my thoughts together first. I'm posting a consolidated list of various news articles about Joe.
Again, thank you all for your support. I'll be back soon.
- DOD Press Release
Fallen Heroes Memorial
Post-Gazette obituary
The Post-Gazette Obituary Guest Book
Tribune-Review story
Another Post-Gazette story
And you can't have an Irish funeral without a fight. Guess what happens when the Sedition Party sends the Lieutenant Governor to a Marine's funeral.
And the fallout from the story of this wacky-moonbat's action has been building.
Personally, I don't care if Knoll and Rendell apologize. An apology from a politician is worthless, they'd be doing it to minimize the negative spin. Rendell was behind the military vote suppression in 2000 and tried again in 2004, and I should accept an apology from him? As far as the senile old bat goes, she just said what the Sedition Party (Ted Kennedy, Dick Durbin, Al Gore, and so on)
has been spouting all along. I have no respect for them and even less for when they say "sorry."
