wargrudge
10-23-2008, 02:39 PM
For some this may not anger you, but if you are a decent human being this should at least be slightly disturbing.
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So there's a journalist (referred to as a "foreign correspondent") by the name of Nick Meo, who recently wrote this story (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/3223963/Afghanistan-The-night-I-was-killed-in-action-by-a-Taliban-ambush.html) about an experience he had whilst out on a convoy with some members of the National Guard that are currently deployed in Afghanistan, which was hit by an IED and concurrently attacked.
"On top, manning the heavy machine-gun, with his head poking out of the vehicle's hatch, was Scott Dimond, a 39-year-old father of four. I didn't talk to him before we set off, which in a way I am now grateful for. Less than an hour later he was dead."
People are blasting both the reporter, to include both this 21 year Army veteran (http://bouhammer.com/wordpress/?p=1792) and hundreds of people writing comments on a short piece about the story (http://www.wmur.com/news/17771380/detail.html#-) in the New Hampshire news (which had/has some of the video on there, I cannot confirm this as the computer I'm using can't display alot of items), to include a member of the deceased's family. The man makes the entire story about himself and tries to make the American unit he was with, who just happened to most likely be responsible for him even being able to come back alive to write the story, seem like a bunch of scared sissies who didn't have any clue what they were doing. I'm seriously pissed off now, how can a person who can call themselves a "journalist" write such things?
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So there's a journalist (referred to as a "foreign correspondent") by the name of Nick Meo, who recently wrote this story (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/3223963/Afghanistan-The-night-I-was-killed-in-action-by-a-Taliban-ambush.html) about an experience he had whilst out on a convoy with some members of the National Guard that are currently deployed in Afghanistan, which was hit by an IED and concurrently attacked.
"On top, manning the heavy machine-gun, with his head poking out of the vehicle's hatch, was Scott Dimond, a 39-year-old father of four. I didn't talk to him before we set off, which in a way I am now grateful for. Less than an hour later he was dead."
People are blasting both the reporter, to include both this 21 year Army veteran (http://bouhammer.com/wordpress/?p=1792) and hundreds of people writing comments on a short piece about the story (http://www.wmur.com/news/17771380/detail.html#-) in the New Hampshire news (which had/has some of the video on there, I cannot confirm this as the computer I'm using can't display alot of items), to include a member of the deceased's family. The man makes the entire story about himself and tries to make the American unit he was with, who just happened to most likely be responsible for him even being able to come back alive to write the story, seem like a bunch of scared sissies who didn't have any clue what they were doing. I'm seriously pissed off now, how can a person who can call themselves a "journalist" write such things?