Chief Warrant Officer Dwayne L. MooreWhen Dwayne L. Moore was a kid, he didn't have just one G.I. Joe doll. He had all of them.
"He had the forts, he had the men, he had the stations, everything set up in his room, like on TV," said his nephew Dameian James, who grew up with Moore. "As little kids, we ate together, we slept in the same bed, we shared our dreams, we shared our feelings."
So it was no surprise to his family that Moore joined the Army after high school and steadily climbed the ranks. Moore, 31, a field artillery warrant officer assigned to the 10th Mountain Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, was killed April 19 when his base near Mahmudiyah, Iraq, came under attack.
Moore's sister Phyllis Thompson said Moore apparently was killed as he was trying to help comrades. "He cared about everybody," Thompson said. "Our kids, if he'd see one of them going this way or that way, he'd say, 'Boy, get your life straight,' and ask about the Lord and ask them what they wanted to do with their life."Moore, the youngest of seven children, always seemed to know what he wanted, family members said. He married his high school sweetheart, Kelly, and they had a daughter, Aiyana, 5, who worshiped her father. The feeling was mutual. "Even if he went to the barbershop, she'd go along," said Sandra Wallace, another sister.
His family last heard from him April 10. "He had called on my father's birthday," said Moore's brother Gary.
Moore was a big man -- a wide receiver in high school, a father and a godfather, an Army officer. But now, his brother said, their grieving mother keeps saying, "That's the baby. That's the baby."
While Moore served in Iraq, Halliburton profited nearly $6 Billion dollars.
Should his wife and daughter share in any of those war profits?
6 comments:
Its a mistake to relate this to money. Money is abstract concept that measures debt. Lets not pay people for dieing.
He got paid the 20.000 grand bonus for re-upping. Thats about what suicide bombers are sometimes paid, or rather their families.
This guy knew what he was doing.
He could of ditched. He could have deserted. He could have gotten out. He made his choice. He supported the system and the powers that be. Maybe he was tricked. Maybe he supported Halliburton. Who cares about Halliburton, obviously they are special interest scum.
- The war will broaden soon into Iran and a whole lot more people are going to die. All these 'brothers' are going to get their ass`s toasted on all sides.
Why ?
For crooked business interests, and special interest belief system groups.
Interestingly those groups are going to fight it out among themselves also.
Get ready for more chaos.
Buckle up, we are about to do a societal 'crash test'.
Skip: Who cares about Halliburton, obviously they are special interest scum
I care. This is pure crap that this brother had to die. And for what?
And it is about money, the soldiers don't enlist just because they love America and apple pie. Being in the military is a job. I can't knock a soldier and say he's supporting Halliburton. He's trying to feed himself and his family.
This is just shameful and the sad thing is you are right Skip on to Iran.
GW Bush and the Neocons will have a special circle in the inferno for what they have done.
Actually, Damien, not just the neocons but the soldiers who fight their wars will have a special place in hell by their sides.
I don't care if these soldiers go to foreign countries and murder people for a job or for patriotic glory, they are the weapons of the empire. GW, Cheney and the neocons would not be able to pick these fights if it weren't for the blind, unthinking obedience of these troops.
Indeed, the troops take an oath to defend the Constitution. Not to defend the President, not to defend the country, but to the defend the CONSTITUTION. And they violate that oath each time they allow themselves to be deployed. And if their sole justification for violating that oath and being weapons of empire is "I did it for the money", well, can't say that I have a great deal of sympathy. They are enemies of the people and, while they may now be used against the poor unfortunate "others" of the world, it is only a matter of time until each one of us ends up in their crosshairs.
I'm not saying soldiers do their job in Iraq (ie. kill) for pure profit. I'm talking about why they joined the military in the first place. If you're an unskilled person who thinks the GI bill can help you/the military is a decent job, etc... you'll enlist. If subsequent to that the President says you have to go to a foreign country and do what he says or you'll go to jail then what would you do? Especially if you have a family to feed. God love the conscientious objector, but I can't hate on the soldier. They're not supposed to question orders, itys the military not free society. That's why I blame our "leaders" and not the soldiers.
"I don't care if these soldiers go to foreign countries and murder people for a job or for patriotic glory, they are the weapons of the empire. GW, Cheney and the neocons would not be able to pick these fights if it weren't for the blind, unthinking obedience of these troops." Insurgent
.... ummm
Insurgent. You open a dangerous can of worms. Do you pay income taxes?
Your tax money is a weapon used to kill just as many brown Arab Iraqis as any soldier who pulls the trigger on a M16 A2 Assault Rifle and kills a kid with a .556 caliber full metal jacket.
You are right, Bush and Cheney could not fight this war without the blind unthinking obedience of the troops. Nor could they do it without the blind unthinking obedience of the taxpayers.
That includes you and me.
We gotta practice what we preach. If we ask the troops to refuse to serve, we must be prepared to no longer pay income tax and to face those consequences.
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