{"id":28761,"date":"2012-02-16T09:40:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T13:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28761"},"modified":"2012-02-16T09:41:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T13:41:49","slug":"christie-honors-true-new-jersey-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28761","title":{"rendered":"Christie honors “true New Jersey treasure”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wasn’t going to mention Whitney Houston, there was just no real need. Everyone knows how I feel about her without me having to write a word, but what does need to be discussed is the Great Hope Chris Christie’s decision to lower the flags in the State to halfstaff. In a statement yesterday<\/a>, he wrote;<\/p>\n

Whitney Houston was a true New Jersey treasure. Her terribly premature death is an awful loss for her family and the incredible New Jersey musical family. Her soaring talent put her in the pantheon of great New Jersey musical talents like Frank Sinatra, Count Basie and Bruce Springsteen. Our prayers are with her family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ya know what, yesterday the Department of Defense<\/a> announced the death of a young Marine from New Jersey who was killed in Afghanistan on February 10th.<\/p>\n

Lance Cpl. Osbrany Montes De Oca, 20, of North Arlington, N.J., died Feb. 10 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was 28 years younger than Whitney Houston at the time of his death, I’d call that “terribly premature”, and he wasn’t found in a bath tub pumped full of drugs because he was distraught over the fact that he was famous and had more money than he knew what he could do with it. So who is flying flags at halfstaff for him, outside of his family? His loss is probably more of an “awful loss for his family” than the apparently surprising news to Houston’s family that she died. His talent and courage surpassed her by miles.<\/p>\n

Blackfive<\/a> wrote yesterday “this is a bad judgement call that they get to make”. I personally think that it more than poor judgement, it’s downright pathetic. I guess it’s got something to do attracting money to New Jersey, but look at who is bringing that money. Do you want those people in your state? <\/p>\n

Like I wrote on Facebook yesterday, if they’re going to fly flags at half staff for every crack addict that dies in New Jersey, they might as well cut their flagpoles in half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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