-From PearlsWindow.com
I thought that this was very interesting. The mother of the marine who was found murdered, along with his wife has written an open letter to Barack Obama asking for his help with the case.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I understand the anguish that this woman must be going through, but I’m thinking more in terms of the expectations that people must have of Barack Obama.
Remember when I said that people will expect Barack Obama to change the world, literally. I admire Barack Obama just as much as I feel sorry for him in that so many people look at him as if he is the second coming, and it’s so unfair because he will fall out of favor with people really quickly when they realize that he’s just a man.
Just thought that I’d give you my thoughts on this before I finished the story - read below:
“Dear President-elect Barack Obama, they killed my son.”
So begins a wrenching letter by the mother of murdered Brooklyn Marine Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak, published Wednesday in a Polish newspaper.
In it, Henryka Pietrzak-Varga asked Obama for help in getting to the bottom of the murders of her son and daughter-in-law, Quiana. Police say four other Marines killed them both - but not before raping Quiana.
“Death at war at the hands of an enemy is, for a soldier, a patriotic honor,” the heartbroken mom wrote in Polish.
“That fact alone enables his family to come to grips with the loss. The death of a soldier in his country and at the hands of his own soldiers … is a source of endless suffering for his family.”
The Pietrzaks were tortured - and Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak was raped - before they were bound, gagged and killed execution style last month in their California home.
“Their lives were taken in a bestial way,” Pietrzak-Varga wrote in the letter in the Dziennik Wschodni newspaper. “My son’s wife was raped in a bestial way, most likely as my son looked on helplessly.”
Prosecutors say robbery was the motive, but neither family believes it - though they have stopped short of calling it a hate crime.
Pietrzak, 24, who was born in Poland and raised in Bensonhurst, was white. His 26-year-old wife, who grew up near San Diego, was black. So are the four accused Marines.
