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Don't know about today, but I knew about this one. The media killed it, and Mr Obama only issued a statement condemning it in the Arkansas media.
GI killed at recruiting center mourned
By Jon Gambrell - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Jun 9, 2009 15:05:14 EDT
CONWAY, Ark. ? A white granite headstone will mark the grave of an Arkansas soldier shot to death outside a recruiting center. His family will decide whether the tombstone says Pvt. William Andrew Long was the first soldier to die at the hands of a terrorist since Sept. 11, 2001.
Mourners gathered Monday to remember Long, shot to death a week earlier outside a military recruiting center. A convert to Islam is charged with capital murder, and according to Little Rock police, targeted Army personnel ?because of what they had done to Muslims in the past.?
Caretakers laid Long?s silver casket to rest alongside a Navy veteran of World War II, but how to chisel the private?s grave marker will remain up to his parents ? while federal prosecutors decide whether to press terrorism charges against his killer.
It appears Long was the first service member to die in the U.S. as a result of a terrorist attack since 9/11. Although others have perished during wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Defense Department and a count by The Associated Press lists no domestic terror victims? death in the more than seven years since.
?As bad as it is, people understand when a soldier is killed in combat in a war zone like Iraq or Afghanistan,? Gov. Mike Beebe said outside Harlan Park Baptist Church, where family held a funeral Monday for Long. ?It?s a little different ? shock I guess is the best way to say it ? when one is killed right here at home; targeted because he had a uniform on.?
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/0...uneral_060809/
As for as the Jackson circus.....I'm glad I have over 200 non-news channels I can watch. He's an entertainment loss true, but he was no hero.