July 28, 2006, - 6:42 pm
American Hero’s Last Good-Bye: Sgt. Duane Dreasky Goes to Arlington
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We’ve written quite a bit about Michigan National Guardsman, (, , , and ), who fought for 8 months to survive wounds from a terrorist attack near Habbaniyah, Iraq. The heroic Dreasky suffered burns over 75% of his body, but still tried to salute President Bush when he visited his bedside.
Dreasky wasn’t even supposed to be in Iraq because after a year as a guard in Guantanamo Bay, he was assigned to be a recruiter in Michigan. But he volunteered to go.
Sadly, after a valiant fight, Sgt. Dreasky, at age 31, passed away, just over two weeks ago. His memorial service was Saturday in Walled Lake, Michigan. On Tuesday, this American hero was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, an honor he certainly has earned. He was also promoted in rank to Staff Sgt.
Here is an excerpt of the coverage from The Detroit News’ Edward Cardenas and Gordon Trowbridge:
They remembered Staff Sgt. Duane J. Dreasky’s gung-ho attitude, how he was proud of the sharp, starched lines of his uniform and his spit-shined boots. They chuckled over how he once turned off the hot water to a friend’s shower as a practical joke. How he made a cake out of Twinkies and Ho Hos for a birthday celebration.
Most of all, members of Michigan National Guard Company B, 125th Infantry remembered Dreasky as a fighter . . . .
“Even though I was his leader, he had qualities I wanted to have,” said Staff Sgt. Keenon Wallace, who supervised Dreasky during an earlier deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “He wasn’t ‘like’ my brother. He WAS my brother.” . . .
“If I had an army (of soldiers) like him, I wouldn’t have a job to do,” said Sgt. Maj. Dan Lincoln, whom Dreasky begged for a spot on deployments to Cuba and then to Iraq. . . .
Staff Sgt. Tom Barrett, 25, of Kalamazoo became close friends with Dreasky while they roomed together in Cuba. . . .
“There wasn’t one thing he did poorly as a soldier,” said Barrett. “Here he is, a National Guard soldier who’s supposed to work one weekend a month and two weeks a year, and he would constantly volunteer to serve.”
From the Detroit Free Press:
Maj. Gen. Tom Cutler of the Michigan Army National Guard [said] “America just lost an outstanding young person.” . . .
Staff Sgt. Rob Witgen, 39, of Williamston served with Dreasky in Cuba and Iraq. Witgen was not surprised when Dreasky fought to live, for so many months, enduring so much pain while showing so much dignity and class. . . . “He was the epitome of a soldier,” Witgen said. “He was a fighter. His body gave out before his will.”
Staff Sgt. Duane Dreasky, American Hero, Rest in Peace.
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When I read that Dreasky, wracked with pain and covered with burned skin, tried to salute George Bu$ch, I was torn between throwing up and smashing my computer screen.
But it was also extremely revealing because it clearly demonstrates that even to the point of zealous, misguided patriotism and death, some people are simply unable (or unwilling) to discern truth from fiction, right to the very end.
Dreasky’s horrendous physical condition was directly related to the actions of Bu$ch, a globalist, and a new world order operative. Bu$ch must have the soul of a demon and the swagger of Satan himself, to be able to enter into a roomful of men whom he has maimed.
Why would Dreasky salute a traitor who has opened the doors to 30 million illegal aliens and who calls patriotic Americans, ‘vigilantes’?
Why would Dreasky salute a ‘Benedict Arnold’ who has attempted to neuter the Constitution and the Bill of Rights with police-state activities such as the so-called ‘patriot’ act and the institution of another big government entity named ‘homeland security?’
Why would Dreasky salute a thief who stole Jewish land and handed it over to deranged Arabs?
Why would Dreasky salute an occultist who participated in a satanic ritual inside a coffin on the campus of Yale?
Why would Dreasky salute a liar who calls the pagan god ‘allah,’ the same god as the God of the Bible?
I served with lots of guys like Dreasky in the military. They were loaded with gung-ho zeal but short on G2. They never questioned anything, no matter how absurd, that originated from lofty men who never did the fighting. That is not meant as an insult to a dead man, but simply the way I see it. I’m angry because, to me, Dreasky’s death was a waste.
And the operatives of the nwo know all about guys like Dreasky, even though in private, they disdain them. They know that there will always be an ample supply of guys like Dreasky. Multitudes of anonymous guys from dozens of nowhere small towns, big cities, slums, and ghettos, all desperate to escape the banality of their lives, or poverty, or to make their mark on the world and to make the hometown folks proud of them in the next parade.
Dreasky probably thought that his sacrifice was worth it, and since it was his life, he was certainly entitled to do with it as he pleased.
If Dreasky knew the Lord, he is with Him now. And now he knows the truth. I wonder what he would tell us now if only he could?
joemccarthy on July 28, 2006 at 9:04 pm