An SUV Iraq war memorial!??!?

[Tmy]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/16/eveningnews/main1414176.shtml

One military mother is going to extraordinary lengths to pay tribute to her fallen son. Jerry Bowen reports on her journey in the fourth part of the CBS Evening News special series, "The Iraq War: Three Years and Counting."

It's family day at the U.S. Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego and all eyes should be on the graduating class. But, there is a tricked out Hummer that is drawing all the onlookers.

Karla Comfort, the SUVs driver, is posing for pictures.

"You know it's not me they're drawn to," she says. "It's the vehicle. It's the power of what happened."





I saw this on the CBS news and thought it was a joke. While I emphasize with the mothers grief over losing her son, I was shocked that nowhere in the story did anyone mention the irony that her big obnoxious GAS GUZZLING Hummer H2 is being used as a mobile tribute to those dieing in Iraq!!! Its regoddamndiculos!

 

[Cain]

Cain says that's AWESOME.

 

[Zbu]

That's so incredibly stupid and yet so full of irony that I hope someone with a real critically humorous wit digs up all these stupid pseudo-tributes a lot of dimwits are doing in the next few years and mocks them for all their worth.

Seriously, shouldn't you do something a bit more....graceful for your own dead child? It's just so sadly hilarious.

 

[SuperCoolGuy]

You can't make this stuff up.

If I did a fictional satirical news story a week ago depicting this, I know I would be hated and ridiculed for my disrespect and cold-heartedness.

The irony slams you in the forehead, but you have to pretend not to notice out of respect for this nice lady.

So weird.

 

[bob_kark]

A pointless vehicle for a pointless war, I can't think of a better tribute.

 

[The Don]

Comfort says her favorite part of the Hummer is a small mural of Marines guarding the gates of heaven. She believes her son is one of them.

Because of course, God thinks that America is the bestest country ever.

 

[TimmyBerry]

... In a sad way, it's hilarious.