George W. & his Pentagon boys have been trying to get men who have been Killed In Action to re-join the military.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6237607.stm
Haven’t the families suffered** enough**? :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
A better thread title would be Zombi Army Enlisted in TWAT (The War Against Terror)!
I’m sure the mice are furious about this.
Must be the Chicago branch of the Pentagon sent it out.
That, or the movie Universal Soldier was a documentary.
Well, when your VP is a blood-sucking revenant who rose from the grave unto bring devastation and despair to the living, you’re bound to make this sort of mistake sooner or later.
I can tell you I’ve seen mailing errors like this (but not involving deaths or injuries) a number of times in my career. IT processing can be run sloppily, programmers can be sloppy, and everybody makes mistakes. This is an awful mistake. But such mistakes are not confined to Republican administrations, and Bush is not personally responsible. So chill, Bosda.
Hey, now, I’ve played enough RPGs to know that an army of undead would do a wonderful job against an insurgency. As long as said insurgency doesn’t have any clerics, of course.
On the bright side, if GW is called up again himself maybe it will keep him from what he has in mind for us otherwise.
This reminds me of that Masters of Horror episode with the zombies that come back to life so they can vote to end the war they died in.
While I was in Basic Training, many years ago, I recieved several threatening letters from Selective Service, demanding that I register and threatening dire consequences. My drill sgt was highly amused.
Death does not release you.
Robert Sheckley wrote a story back in the 1950s where medical science had made such advances that they could, in most cases, bring soldiers back from the dead in their MASH units. The hero finally manages, after “dying” several times (and getting sick of being re-animated), to get himself killed in a way that he;'s sure will prevent his being brought back, only to find that they figured out a way to revive you even in such severe cases.
Apparently, when you take up the quarrel with the foe, to you from failing hands we don’t throw the torch, and it isn’t yours to hold on high. We’re still busy hanging onto it.
In all seriousness, it’s probably a mistake as rowrrbazzle pointed out, but it still really really sucks.
When I was a newspaper reporter in Florida in the late '80s, there was a local story about a disabled veteran (in a wheelchair since the Battle of the Bulge) getting a notice to register for the draft. Everybody at the VFW Hall was highly amused.
Exactly. I believe that the Florida flight school that trained Mohammed Atta got a notice after Sept 11 that his visa extension had been approved.
It’s a bureacracy. Crap happens.