George Bush is more than a little fuzzy on his whereabouts
for the years of 1972 and 1973 but there is no doubt where Luis
Moreno and over 500 other young men and women are now. Jimmy
Breslin talks
about the heartbreak of an 18 year old girl who has to watch as
they bury the boyfriend she will never get to marry.
He was 19 years old. They were loading him in his box into a
hearse for the ride to a cemetery forever. She also had a
question: "Why is he dead?" She is Jessica Corporan and
she is 18 and was going to marry him when he got back from Iraq.
If you are going to have your heart broken, 18 is not the easiest
age to evade pain...
And on the eve of invading Iraq, Bush made a speech that was a
copy of the one made by Adolph Hitler in the hours before his
army invaded Poland in September of 1939. In a State of the Union
speech, Bush said that Saddam tried to get uranium from the
country of Niger and blow us away with a nuclear bomb. Afterward,
the Bush people said the speech was essentially right although it
had some wrong. It did. This could be put in three letters: LIE.
A single yellow rose lies in the path as United
States Army soldiers as they carry the coffin of Pfc. Luis Moreno
for burial at St. Raymond's Cemetery in New York
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