It was a nasty evil thing to do back during the Vietnam war. People would call families claiming to be the military and tell their son had been killed and the family would later find it was a lie. Mental and emotional abuse and torture of the worse kind. Well what once was old is new again... but still just as evil and heartless. Only this time the media is being compliant.
Calls are being made to families and the words no family with a soldier wants to hear are uttered " We regret to inform you"... Only to find out their soldier is alive and well. It's done to break morale and inflict injury on the families. Not only that but on our troops also. Now instead of our soldiers being able to completely focus on their mission they have the burden of worrying about something like this happening to their loved ones who are suppose to be safe at home.
Ray Jasper of Niagara Falls says he was camping Sunday when he received a call on his cell phone from a woman who said she was a military liaison. He says the woman told him his son, Staff Sgt. Jesse Jasper, was killed in action Saturday.
The father says he later called military officials to get details of his son's death and was told that his son is alive. Ray Jasper says the officials couldn't explain the earlier call.
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Now I can imagine the emotions this man went through. The complete and utter shattering of his world. And whoever made that call intended for him to suffer. It was not a PRANK. It was a intentional infliction of mental abuse and emotional pain on this man and his family. I am not sure what laws are in affect to punish this but they are not strong enough.
The Media, CBS News in this case, is reporting this hideous behavior as a mistake of the military. Well It wasn't! I know for a fact the military will not call a family to deliver this type of news. Even if the family is not home they will either stand guard until they return or find them and go to them. They tell the family by looking into their eyes. Telling the families is one of the most difficult jobs in the military and my heart goes out to the causality officers who perform it.. also my respect.
Another version of these calls is to tell you your loved was wounded.. usually these call request a verification of the soldier's social security number and then the soldier's identity is stolen. If these people are not oblivious to the family's suffering they are just as evil.
These types of calls and attacks on the families of our troops are terrorism in themselves. I am getting very angry and sick of the abuse put up on our troops and their families...
It's time to get VERY LOUD about it and start fighting back against these type of terror tactics and abuses of our troops and their families. Again this is an attack on our military and their families! I can't say it strongly enough. This is ABUSE and Terrorism!
Note: A similar incident happened at Ft Campbell last fall where two men actually went to a woman's home and falsely told her her husband was killed. http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/11/imposters-posin.html
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The moment I heard "called" I knew something was wrong. And I stared at the TV wondering what the hell the MSM was doing when THEY *KNOW* that the DoD does not notify by phone. It is such a disgusting manipulation of our emotions, I end up wanting to march to the FCC and yank the licenses of every of the major outlets and make them be off the air for an entire day.
I do have a question: did not the Jasper family know in advance of the procedures for notification? And if so, how did the false detail get added that they wondered how the DoD could make such a mistake? Or how did the real detail get omitted, that they knew it was not the military who called?
Who is fabricating what here? I'm highly suspicious of everyone until I know more.
The Jasper phone records should be investigated and this should be criminally prosecuted. If it is not specifically illegal, and why not if not, then we need to make it a law immediately.
How I wish the Vietnam hippies, their spawn and/or wannabes would go stink up some other country.
This is an all time new low. You are right it is terrorism. Thank you for alerting me to this. I pray that these people are caught and stopped.
Thank you for telling me this. I will remember it and also tell the kids.
Apparently the unit liason was notifying families of the unit of a death of another soldier but screwed up the script: http://www.wtop.com/?nid=104&sid=1763121
Looks like they’re going to change the scripts though to avoid this kind of horrible mistake in the future though:
Fickel said the unit is considering starting the scripts with “your son or daughter is fine.” Internal jargon like “red line message” will probably go, he said.
The other yahoos who were intentionally screwing with military families should end up in prison for a dern long time though. This lady (apparently a wife of a soldier deployed in the same unit) just screwed up though it seems, as opposed to being some deranged military hating leftist.
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