While our quisling Congress was busy donning knee pads to service the whims of George, the pretender, Gina Gray was busy defending the rights and honor of those who deserve better leadership.  However, for Gina Gray there were no applause, no accolades, no letters of commendation.  For her unwavering adherence to the seven virtues essential for effective soldiering - loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honour, integrity, and personal courage - Gina Gray was accorded the only recognition these pretenders have to offer someone of her caliber.  She was fired.

Until recently, Gina Gray was public affairs director at Arlington National Cemetery.  She had held that position for about three months - most of them tumultuous.  

Just 10 days on the job, she was handling media coverage for the burial of a Marine colonel who had been killed in Iraq when she noticed that Thurman Higgenbotham, the cemetery's deputy superintendent, had moved the media area 50 yards away from the service, obstructing the photographs and making the service inaudible.  The Washington Sketch column on April 24 noted that Gray pushed for more access to the service but was "apparently shot down by other cemetery officials."

That was just the beginning.  Apparently the article was brought to the attention of Robert Gates, the successor to the man who previously desecrated the position of Secretary of Defense War.   It turns out the decision to hide the dead... to pretend they never existed ... to erase them from memory ... to defile their sacrifice with an official act of Ars Oblivionalis is still the policy of this government.  

The harrassment became official shortly after the article appeared.  Her supervisor, Phyllis White, sent her a one-line e-mail stating "Gina, when you leave the building let me know."  Next, she was instructed not to work overtime without written approval.  Then she was instructed to demote herself from public affairs director to public affairs officer.  Then she was directed to remove the Marines poster in her cubicle.  The list goes on... and I won't repeat it here because it is an embarrassment to all of us that cowards and quislings serve the whims of people who are unworthy of licking the boots of people like Gina Gray.

However, in a Freudian slip of epic proportions  Phyllis White told the Post that Gina Gray had been fired because she had "failed to act in an inappropriate manner."   I guess we can take small comfort in the fact that the minions of those who rape the constitution and dishonor our dead at least have enough of a soul left to recognize that what they are doing is inappropriate.

Gina Gray didn't need them to tell her that ... the families who want these funerals covered by the media don't need bootlickers to remind them of this insult to injury... and we need to stand against those who think "honoring service" is a simply catchy campaign slogan they can run and hide behind whenever the going gets tough.

So stand up and repeat after me:

On behalf of a grateful nation, and in defiance of an indifferent president, a quisling congress, and cowardly lackeys... Thank You, Gina Gray, American Hero.  You honor US with your service.