Last Friday marked the 14th anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks. It also happened to be the day 67-year-old Gerald “Jerry” Casale married 26-year-old Krista Napp, and used the tragic events as the theme for their wedding.
Casale is notable as the singer and bass player of the early 1980s novelty pop act Devo. Unfortunately, he treated the 9-11 anniversary as a novelty too. The couple celebrated their marriage with a cake replica of the World Trade Center with their faces hanging from each tower. Table placement cards bore the image of a box cutter with the couples name on them. And to top off the bizarre reception was possibly the most offensive party favor, real box cutters.
Some guests chalked up the wedding reception to Jerry and Krista both having a “dark and strange sense of humor.” Twisted and demented are the more appropriate words to describe such treatment of almost 3,000 innocent Americans being murdered.
Michele Miller, whose brother Mitchell Wallace, a state court officer who died while trying to save others on 9/11, Casale didn’t just cross the line — he obliterated it.
‘Shame on him, his wife, his guests, and even the restaurant for participating in such garbage,’ she added. ‘A box cutter? My brother turned to ashes as the South Tower fell on him and people died at the Pentagon because of box cutters.’
Casale’s excuse? He explained September 11th was the only date the couple could get married since apparently the Beverly Hills courthouse is only opened on Fridays and his marriage application was conveniently set to expire.
He then blamed a friend was for the Tower cakes and box cutters. The unnamed friend overheard Casale declare him and Napp “are the Twin Towers of love,” thus giving rise to the 9/11 theme.
Casale said he didn’t make a fuss over the cake his friend supplied because, ‘You don’t want to ruin the whole night by overreacting. And it was just a matter of getting out there, the servers cut the cake which everyone ate.’
Because what normal person wouldn’t overreact over such sick humor?
This isn’t the first time the singer has made use of the 9/11 terror attacks though. Casale has been responsible for a project called “Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers,” and released an album called “Mine Is Not A Holy War” in 2005.
Casale again downplayed the whole ordeal and even went so far as to pull the victim card when he said:
‘I apologize to anyone who was offended,’ Casale told Billboard, saying the wedding reception theme was all a surprise to him and his bride. He said now the media attention it's received has ‘ruined our wedding.’
According to Billboard, Casale was apparently “’surprised at the attention’ this is receiving, given all the other issues in the news right now, such as the migrant crisis in Europe, Boko Haram and other matters he called "the pure gravity of the horror out there."
Yes, how utterly surprising it is that the public turned out some well-deserved criticism on liberal nut making a mockery of a day that serves as remembrance and mourning of fallen Americans from one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in our country.
