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This is an e-mail that got forwarded to our command.



For those of you who don't know what CACO means: Casualty Assistance Calls Officer



The men and women who are CACO's are charged with informing military families that their loved one has passed.



-----Original Message-----

From: JOC(SW) Trent

Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:11





All morning people have been asking me -- "How was it, Chief?" I can't verbalize it. I can only write it. When I took the CACO course, I fervently hoped my services would never, ever be needed. But they were.

And this is what we do.



Last night I had to say words I had never imagined myself ever having to say. The father looked me square in the eyes, knowing what I was about to say and dreading the words he knew he was about to hear, but still clinging to some desperate hope that it wouldn't be so.



"Sir, I'm sorry to tell you that your son died today in a helicopter crash outside of Baghdad."



What else is there to say? He knew as soon as he saw the Chaplain and I walking towards him. He cried out to us as we walked up the driveway, "Please don't tell me something bad. Please don't tell me something bad."

But it was bad. And, as the Chaplain so wisely warned me before we pulled into the driveway, there would be nothing in the world I would say or do that would make it any better. Thank God for the Chaplain. Sometimes the best thing is silence.



His son's boot camp portrait hung on the wall, the extra large picture in the matted frame. He was beautiful. He had the most amazing smile. And his father stood in front of that portrait, slamming his fists against the wall in total rage and incomprehensible grief. As I watched him, completely helpless and powerless, I could see all the father wanted was to reach into that portrait and hug his boy, hold him tightly to his breast, pat his hair and cling to him. But he couldn't, and he never will again.



He was a corpsman. A helicopter paramedic on his second tour in Iraq. With his Marines. Aren't they always? He was just home last month, dad said. They threw him a big party.



The oldest brother will be 17 next month. He shed his tears in complete silence. After a few minutes, he left us to seek solitude in a world of grief we could not enter. The 13-year-old started crying as soon as I spoke, and sobbed until we left two hours later.



As it came time to leave the family to their numbing grief, I said the only thing I could possibly think to say.



"Your son was my brother. They all are. And you are my family."



I left their home, and among the roller coaster of emotions I was feeling, the one overwhelming emotion was an amazing sense of honor. This Sailor was my brother. They all are. And his family is my family.



Misty



Very respectfully,

MCC(SW) Misty Trent

Asst. Public Affairs Officer

Director of Internal Information

United States Naval Academy



"To the world you may be one person.

To one person you may be the world."

Read from the bottom up.



This guy keeps messaging me with other messages besides the below. I ignore them all because they all say the: Hi cutie.....What's up....bullshit that I absolutely hate. I thought by being sarcastic, he would get the idea.....guess not.







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Feb 03 2007



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On 15:39:57 Feb 02 2007 Angelpie wrote:



Cake

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Cookies

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A great roasted chicken

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My car



My fiance But he is great, not just good



Kisses from my fiance and my kiddies



Anything else?



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hi what's good

Please read from the bottom up!





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Oh, I didn't mean to offend. I just want to come off different than the usual how are you type of thing and I knew you had children and there were gals at my workplace that were talking about that kinda stuff. I'm so sorry.



On 03:50:57 Feb 09 2007 Angelpie wrote:



Why the hell would you ask such personal questions to a person you don't know?????



On 03:13:44 Feb 09 2007 SlayersZel wrote:



Like a flabby belly



On 13:43:44 Feb 08 2007 Angelpie wrote:



What do you mean by something else?







On 04:19:36 Feb 08 2007 SlayersZel wrote:



Hehehe, well. Like do you have stretch marks on your belly or something else heh :)



On 01:17:05 Feb 08 2007 Angelpie wrote:



What exactly do you mean?



On 20:40:01 Feb 07 2007 SlayersZel wrote:



Hello Jenny, Can you tell me the aftermath of being pregnant? If there is any residue effects :D

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/08/name.change.ap/index.html





DECATUR, Illinois (AP) -- Scott Wiese is a man of his word. But soon his friends will be saying that about Peyton Manning.



Wiese, a die-hard Chicago Bears fan, will legally change his name to that of the Indiana Colts quarterback. He signed a pledge in front of a crowd at a Decatur bar last Friday night, vowing to adopt Manning's name if the Bears lost Sunday's Super Bowl.



The final score was Colts 29, Bears 17.



So on Tuesday, Wiese went to the Macon County Courts Facility and started the process of changing his name.



"I made the bet, and now I've got to keep it," said the 26-year-old, who lives in Forsyth, just north of Decatur.



Wiese will now have to advertise his intention in the local newspaper -- the Herald & Review -- for several weeks and then have a judge give him the OK to become, legally anyway, Peyton Manning.



The men have little in common, Wiese acknowledges.



Manning the quarterback is 30 years old, stands 6-foot-5 and has a contract with the Colts worth more than $100 million.



Wiese is 5-foot-11 and works at a Staples office-supply store for somewhat less.



"I think I kind of represent all Bears fans," he said. "Not that I'm saying they're all idiots like me, but I represent their passion because I really care about my team, you know?"



While he pledged to take on the new identity, Wiese didn't make any promises about how long he would keep it.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1586322,00.html





Ballot: Married People Must Have Kids



Tuesday, Feb. 06, 2007 By AP/RACHEL LA CORTE Article ToolsPrintEmailReprints OLYMPIA, Wash. — Proponents of same-sex marriage have introduced a ballot measure that would require heterosexual couples to have a child within three years or have their marriages annulled.



The Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance acknowledged on its Web site that the initiative was "absurd" but hoped the idea prompts "discussion about the many misguided assumptions" underlying a state Supreme Court ruling that upheld a ban on same-sex marriage.



The measure would require couples to prove they can have children to get a marriage license. Couples who do not have children within three years could have their marriages annulled.



All other marriages would be defined as "unrecognized," making those couples ineligible for marriage benefits.



The paperwork for the measure was submitted last month. Supporters must gather at least 224,800 signatures by July 6 to put it on the November ballot.



The group said the proposal was aimed at "social conservatives who have long screamed that marriage exists for the sole purpose of procreation."



Cheryl Haskins, executive director of Allies for Marriage and Children, said opponents of same-sex marriage want only to preserve marriage as the union of a man and a woman.



"Some of those unions produce children and some of them don't," she said.