As our globetrotting Secretary of State wrapped up her Asia tour today, the solemn mood and muted colors on the tarmac in Hanoi contrasted starkly with the explosion of exuberance and color that we saw in Seoul just a few days ago. In what was, I believe, a precedent, the Secretary of State accompanied, on her plane, the repatriated remains of American MIAs from Viet Nam.
These pictures of the repatriation ceremony could be mistaken for black-and-white but for the one splash of color – Old Glory draping the coffin. A few more guys are coming home with her. It is a good time to remind everyone: We were against the illegal war. We were NEVER against our soldiers! Welcome home, men, and thank you for your service and sacrifice.
Thank you, Mme. Secretary for your service as well. This is a fitting ending to your visit to Hanoi.
UPDATE: h/t to Jo Anne Odell at Team Hillary Clinton who found this video. It appears the remains were loaded onto a military transport and the the Secretary’s plane. You can see the emotion on her face. Thanks again, Jo Anne!
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Wow, she looks ready to come home – that second picture, oh my! But my real question is about the last one and your possible, subtle, linguistic tendancy at work. Un/Uni + a smiling Hillary Clinton = The One?
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Holy COW!!!!! Yes! And it’s a nice picture of her, too! I think she was sad during the ceremony.
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Was that you intended message or a gift from the Photography Gods?
In the second picture she just looks sad, tired, and in need of a big, enveloping hug from her sweet country squire.
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It was a gift from the Patron Saint of Photography: St. Veronica (because of her veil).
She looks sad. It is a sad occasion. I was weeping when I wrote this post. Maybe you just had to have been there to know what this meant. This country almost tore asunder. That war changed many, many lives beyond the lives it took. To see her in Hanoi retrieving the missing overwhelmed me. I am sure it provoked emotions in her as well.
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Oh My!!!!! that touched my heart. Well done Madame Secretary, how fitting for you to be taking home MIA’S on your plane. She a wonderful Secretary of State. May God Bless the United State of America.
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Wow! Those pictures touched me to the core. She is so respectful of the MIA soldier who lay in state.
She looks absolutely presidential in these pictures. I love the picture of Hillary coming down the steps with hand waving in greetings!
Thanks Still4Hill!!
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I choke up every time I look at this. And we know our Hillary cannot keep her heart off her face. In the video, you can see how emotional she is at this. Yes, she should be president. I got a questionnaire from the DNC today and told them they cannot win 2012 without her at the TOP if the ticket.
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While the anointed one is off doing whatever, the Acting President is doing the real work. She was sad because of the way that all of our soldiers were treated during that time.
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We never EVER treated our soldiers badly. We didn’t want them to have to go!
It was an unjust and illegal war. They were under orders. Think about now. You have a President who has no clue what a battlefield looks like. Not ANY kind of a battlefield – especially a civilian one!
Did some people diss the military during Nam? Yes. But never Hillary Clinton & Co, Look up Bill Ayers.
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