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Young Marine Blasts Rep. Murtha at Town Hall Meeting (Not Marine, Soldier)
The Post Chronicle ^ | 1/14/06 | Jim Kouri

Posted on 01/14/2006 7:35:58 AM PST by RepublicNewbie

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To: RepublicNewbie

Ain't nothing in this world as gratifying as a NEW old wardog taking a broken, corrupted old wardog to the woodshed.

Semper Fi, Sgt Mark Seavey.


41 posted on 01/14/2006 8:31:17 AM PST by JoeSixPack1
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To: raynearhood

Thank You for your service to our country.


42 posted on 01/14/2006 8:31:47 AM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Have you said Thank You to a Service Man or Woman today?)
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To: OldCorps
Didn't see Murtha or Moron's response

That's my point...they didn't do or say anything. Moran mumbled something about Seavey making a 'statement' rather than posing a question and they immediately went to call on someone else. It was if Seavey hadn't even spoken to them.

43 posted on 01/14/2006 8:34:52 AM PST by tsmith130
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To: Mighty Eighth
I too had have a friend that was a marine and then in the Guard (he came back last year from Baghdad, thank God)).

Even while serving in the Army national guard, all the Ex-marines there stated "Once a Marine, always a Marine".
44 posted on 01/14/2006 8:34:52 AM PST by Tinman73 (Human nature requires We forget the terrible things We see. A truly intelligent person remembers it)
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To: Marine Inspector

Probably because Seavey served in the Army not the Marine Corps.


46 posted on 01/14/2006 8:37:01 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: capt. norm

First, "A Hero NEVER Brags about His Deeds" Second, there is two classes of Bronze Stars. One is for being in a tough situation and the other is for Valor, the star for valor has a raised V in the middle of the star. And lastly, I've met and served under some full birds that were complete assholes and others that were STRAC.


47 posted on 01/14/2006 8:37:48 AM PST by Gaelic
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To: raynearhood

I, too, want to take this opportunity to thank you for your service. I love fellow "sheepdogs."
Here is an excerpt from Thomas P.M. Barnett that I think gives my reason for our actions in Iraq. (Conveys my sentiments)
"We were attacked three years ago, without warning or predicate event. The attack was not a gesture of heroic resistance nor the offshoot of some bright utopian resolve, but the very flower of a movement that delights in the potential for martyrdom expressed in the squalls of the newly born. It is a movement that is about death?that honors death, that loves death, that fetishizes death, that worships death, that seeks to accomplish death wherever it can, on a scale both intimate and global?and if it does not warrant the expenditure of what the self-important have taken to calling ?blood and treasure,? then what does? Slavery? Fascism? Genocide? Let?s not flatter ourselves. If we do not find it within ourselves to identify the terrorism inspired by radical Islam as an unequivocal evil?and to pronounce ourselves morally superior to it?then we have lost the ability to identify any evil at all, and our democracy is not only diminished, it dissolves into the meaninglessness of privilege."


48 posted on 01/14/2006 8:39:27 AM PST by griswold3 (Ken Blackwell, Ohio Governor in 2006)
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To: RepublicNewbie; Laurita; CMS; The Sailor; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; Defender2; OneLoyalAmerican; ...

Marine NOT afraid to not be "PC" Ping!

Young Marine Blasts Rep. Murtha at Town Hall Meeting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558047/posts

"Yes sir my name is Mark Seavey and I just want to thank you for coming up here. Until about a month ago I was Sergeant Mark Seavey infantry squad leader, I returned from Afghanistan. My question to you, (applause)

"Like yourself I dropped out of college two years ago to volunteer to go to Afghanistan, and I went and I came back. If I didn't have a herniated disk now I would volunteer to go to Iraq in a second with my troops, three of which have already volunteered to go to Iraq. I keep hearing you say how you talk to the troops and the troops are demoralized, and I really resent that characterization. (applause) The morale of the troops that I talk to is phenomenal, which is why my troops are volunteering to go back, despite the hardships they had to endure in Afghanistan."

Murtha's War Hero Status Called Into Question
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557630/posts

Too bad the "Move on FReepers" don't have a clue!



49 posted on 01/14/2006 8:41:17 AM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Have you said Thank You to a Service Man or Woman today?)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

OK; and how do you know he served in the Army and not the Marines.

He never states it in his speech and it does not state it in the article.


50 posted on 01/14/2006 8:41:45 AM PST by Marine Inspector (Government is not the solution to our problem; Government is the problem)
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To: Past Your Eyes

I could care less...but the stress is exhilerating, so I reject the suggestion :)


51 posted on 01/14/2006 8:44:30 AM PST by Shanty Shaker
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To: griswold3

a great excerpt, thank you.


52 posted on 01/14/2006 8:45:12 AM PST by raynearhood ("America is too great for small dreams." - Ronald Reagan, speech to Congress. January 1, 1984.)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

BTTT


53 posted on 01/14/2006 8:52:32 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: Marine Inspector; BufordP
how do you know he served in the Army and not the Marines.

The DC chapter met and spoke with the Sgt.

Lets ask Buford

54 posted on 01/14/2006 8:52:56 AM PST by ASA Vet (Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
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To: AnalogReigns
but this exchange had nothing to do with Murtha.

Yes, it did: he told both Moran and Murtha that they were wrong to claim that troop morale is low. But I agree Moran took a much bigger hit, and deservedly so. These fat old farts claim to be so concerned about the troops, and don't even send them a letter? I don't have a staff of hundreds, and yet manage to send off a dozen cards a week to Walter Reed and various church and "thank you" projects.

55 posted on 01/14/2006 8:53:36 AM PST by hsalaw
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To: ASA Vet

Thank you.


56 posted on 01/14/2006 8:55:04 AM PST by Marine Inspector (Government is not the solution to our problem; Government is the problem)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Thanks for the ping!


57 posted on 01/14/2006 9:08:55 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Marine Inspector
Because it has been previously reported that he served in the Army, which you would have known if you had been paying attention to the story from the outset, and he has posted his Army email address on the web. That's how I know.

Any more questions.

58 posted on 01/14/2006 9:12:36 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: Marine Inspector

He is/ was a Sergeant in the UNITED STATES ARMY. He isn't/ wasn't a U.S Marine


59 posted on 01/14/2006 9:17:19 AM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: RepublicNewbie
Bravo Sgt. Seavey and all of his fellow soldiers!!!

As long as valiant young men like him speak up and confront the liars and misogynists who "represent" us, the liars won't/can't win.

Sgt., we are proud to know you!!
60 posted on 01/14/2006 9:17:21 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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