# RISE! Rise from your graves, & serve your Dread Master, GWB! War related. Link **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965 "2007-01-06T20:39:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/1 "2007-01-06T20:39:45Z")
George W. & his Pentagon boys have been trying to get men who have been Killed In Action to re-join the military. > **[BBC NEWS | Americas | US Army urges dead to re-enlist](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6237607.stm)** > > The US Army is to apologise to families of officers killed or wounded in action who were asked to return to duty. > [@](#): > > The US Army is to apologise to the families of officers killed or wounded in action who were sent letters urging them to return to active duty. > > The letters were sent to more than 5,100 Army officers listed as recently having left the military. > > But this figure included about 75 officers killed in action and about 200 wounded in action. Haven’t the families suffered\*\* enough\*\*? :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/2 "2007-01-06T22:09:48Z")
A better thread title would be Zombi Army Enlisted in TWAT (The War Against Terror)! I’m sure the mice are furious about this. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/3 "2007-01-06T22:09:50Z")
Must be the Chicago branch of the Pentagon sent it out. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/4 "2007-01-06T22:25:34Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster] Must be the Chicago branch of the Pentagon sent it out. [/QUOTE] That, or the movie [_Universal Soldier_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Soldier_(1992_film)) was a documentary. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/5 "2007-01-06T23:11:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/6 "2007-01-06T23:49:18Z")
> [@](#): > > It said the database normally used for such correspondence with former officers had been “thoroughly reviewed” to remove the names of dead and wounded soldiers. > > “But an earlier list was used inadvertently for the December mailings,” it added. 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. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/7 "2007-01-07T00:16:30Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] A better thread title would be Zombi Army Enlisted in TWAT (The War Against Terror)! I’m sure the mice are furious about this. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Molly\_Polly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@Molly\_Polly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molly_Polly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/8 "2007-01-07T00:37:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/9 "2007-01-07T01:23:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Don26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@Don26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don26)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/10 "2007-01-07T01:26:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/11 "2007-01-07T01:29:50Z")
Death does not release you. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/12 "2007-01-07T03:52:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/13 "2007-01-07T05:18:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/14 "2007-01-08T17:19:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-rise-from-your-graves-serve-your-dread-master-gwb-war-related-link/386965/15 "2007-01-08T18:15:08Z")
[QUOTE=rowrrbazzle] 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. [/QUOTE] 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.