PURPLE HEART: Terri Sciavo's brother was on Faux News last night holding

[Amy6627]

a Purple Heart. I was laying in bed just flipping through the channels and saw this. I Goggled it today to find out more and this link is all I could find.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=news&start=0&num=1&q=http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/11319632.htm

Nearly 1,000 turn out for Schiavo's funeral; priest denounces death

BY WES SMITH

The Orlando Sentinel


GULFPORT, Fla. - (KRT) - Terri Schiavo was remembered Tuesday evening at a Roman Catholic funeral Mass in which nearly 1,000 people cheered an activist priest's call to action on behalf of the brain-damaged woman who died Thursday after a bitter 15-year battle over her fate.

"God calls us to go forth from this place and build a culture of life," said the Rev. Frank Pavone, leader of Priests for Life, as he announced in his homily "the next chapter" in the Schiavo story to a cheering crowd that included Schiavo's parents and siblings.

In his sermon, Pavone also drew a standing ovation and cheers when he called upon those present to take action "so that what happened in this tragic place will never happen again."

Terri Schiavo's brother, Bobby, fought tears near the end of the two-hour service as he spoke, comparing her death to those of Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist victims. He held up a Purple Heart medal - which some Sept. 11 victims received - saying that his sister also deserved the medal because she, too, was a "victim of national terrorism."

Does anyone know if she received a purple heart?

[Liberal Veteran]

1. I have read nothing to indicate she was in the military.

But I could be wrong.

[CottonBear]

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Please link to the printer-ready version of the article and then we can see it at the link.

Her name is spelled Schiavo.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. He probably picked it up at a pawn shop.

After Vietnam you could get your hands on all kinds of medal at pawn shops.

[mitchtv]

4. time to get out the Bandaids

Ho hum

[Guckert]

5. She deserves a purple heart for having to deal with all the GOP Bullcrap.

which extended her suffering for years against her own will.
Thank God the Popes Mom was not Mrs. Schindler or his wishes would have been questioned.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Bobby's on the verge of a breakdown...

...obviously.:crazy:

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Oh what a show

Notice they didn't forget to mention the tears. :eyes: I wonder if 1,000 people were really there. :eyes:

[bluedog]

7. Gift from Viet Nam........or so they SAY........link

Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, had trouble beginning his rememberence to his sister. After choking back tears, he held up a Purple Heart sent to the family by a Vietnam War veteran. The sender indicated that Schiavo was killed by enemies of the United States, and thus, deserved the award, Schindler said to a standing ovation.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/04/06/Tampabay/_Schiavo_memorial_exh.shtml

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Something I don't get

Why would a Vietnam vet give his medal to someone who hasn't seen any war and has been gone from life for fifteen years? :wtf: That doesn't make any sense.

[oneighty]

14. Likely

put his/their United States Of America flag at half mast too.

Honoring the Flag and the veterans of military service and medals associated with such is a thing of the past. Shame on such people.

180 Veteran of Korea long ago.

[Generator]

8. God save US from people like "Bobby"

Victim of national terrorism!

No, only a victim of the hysterical lunacy you wanted to drag every member of this country through.

LOONS!

[FreedomAngel82]

12. What made me mad

was when he compared her to 9/11 victims. :banghead:

[BurtWorm]

9. "Your 15 minutes are over. Please leave the spotlight. Thank you."

[daleo]

13. The medal seems disrespectful to veterans.

I thought it was reserved for people wounded in combat zones. It seems wrong on a whole bunch of literal and symbolic levels. Although, I had been waiting for some extremist to compare Micheal Shavio to Ossama Bin Laden, and this is pretty close.

[frylock]

15. he's right about her being a "victim of national terrorism"..

of course, the terrorists in this case were the xian fundie jihadists.

Bobby (BTW.. why does a grown man go by "Bobby", and not Bob or Robert), you need to get over yourself.

[SmokingJacket]

16. He probably bought it on Ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=36069&item=6522513007&rd=1

Why not buy ten?

Get her a Silver Star while we're at it.

[sniffa]

17. doesn't he know the pope died?

[EC]

18. This is getting ridiculous

She died because she was starving herself to death to get skinny by bulimia, so in the end she died exactly the way she meant to. A purple heart? 9/11? How insane are these people? Where were they when she was purging after meals? Why didn't they try to keep her alive then? I'm sick to death of this bull-shit.