The Long GoodBye to Matt Maupin
Posted by Raven on April 28th, 2008
Copyright © 2008 And Rightly So!
Good Bye Matt…and it’s been a long goodbye.
CINCINNATI - Military workers and supporters from across the country joined in memorials Sunday for a slain Army reservist who had become a poignant picture of the war in Iraq after he was captured by insurgents.
Officials estimated that about 10,000 people walked past Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin’s casket during a weekend visitation at a civic center in Clermont County, east of Cincinnati, where he grew up. Another 4,000 headed Sunday to Great American Ball Park, home of the Cincinnati Reds, for an afternoon memorial service billed as a celebration.
You’ll be (and have been) missed by many, Matt. Rest in peace.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Sgt. Maupin … Requiescat In Pace
We won’t forget you.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
I’m glad he’s finally getting put to rest. He’s earned it.
I know I’d be spinning in my grave/coffin if I was being broadcast at least once every commercial break in my home area like he has been. Bloody media vultures.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:59 am
RR,
I hope that the local media in his home town is doing it to honor him and celebrate his life and sacrifice, and not as some ploy…..
April 29th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Hey Ranba long time no see; hope all is well with you??
I thought long and hard before posting this. I didn’t want to be one of those “media” outlets exploiting the life and death of this young man. But this site was one of the first to post about his disappearance and the ensuing hunt and then the wait…I felt that Matt deserved a place here. Bless his soul.