This is an excellent tribute to love and sacrifice, devotion and honor, both to the Marine who was willing to give his life for something he believes in and to his wife who remains committed to the man she loves, no matter the circumstances.

It’s a shame more couples are not committed to each other as these two are. Just think of how many divorces would be avoided if all couples believed that love know no boundaries and they actually lived up to the commitment an engagement or marriage requires.

My thoughts and prayers goes out to this couple and all others that face the same, or similar, hardships.

RedinBlueCounty on February 11, 2007 at 2:33 PM

I think Wade is just trying to draw people over to his website.

I think you may be right. I just looked at his site and only two people have commented since Feb 3rd (which is as far as I looked). Not a big following, I would say.

RedinBlueCounty on February 11, 2007 at 5:14 PM

This is worth a reply, most the rest not.

I’m glad you find something you feel is worthy of a response. But you still haven’t answered the question.

You claim that this site is money driven and that your blog is not, and I’ll accept that as the reasoning behind your feeling that this story is disgraceful, but you still haven’t show me why I should accept your insistence that the story is actually disgraceful and exploitive? Is it because the Marine in question is disfigured? Is disfigurement the only criteria you use to determine whether something is exploitive? That makes me wonder if you believe that any pictures of disfigured men and woman should be banned from public display as there may be a case of someone profiting from those pictures. Do you think that these types of posts should be stopped because the subject of the post happens to be disfigured in some way?

Unlike you, I would call portraying a Marine, returning to his soon to be wife and family and living as normally as could be expected after suffering a debilitating injury, a very noble and honorable tribute and not an attempt to exploit someone. People need to hear these kinds of stories as they reflect the great spirit and commitment to love and devotion most Americans hold as high esteem.

Unlike you, I don’t use the content of a post as a determination of exploitation, but rather the intent of such postings and the effect such images have upon the reader. If HotAir was using this man in an attempt to persuade the reader to accept a political or religious ideology, or using the image to enforce a particular point of view, I would call that exploitive. Since HotAir makes no such inference as to the ‘meaning’ of this story, and lets the readers make their own determination as to it’s relevance and importance, there is no exploitation.

And as far as not being welcomed at your site, what difference does that makes at all? None, in my opinion.

RedinBlueCounty on February 12, 2007 at 2:53 PM