Posted on 01/14/2006 7:35:58 AM PST by RepublicNewbie
During a Town Hall meeting earlier this week Democrat Congressmen John Murtha (PA) and Jim Moran (VA) touted their call for a withdrawal from Iraq, an unexpected turn of events occurred.
Moran and Murtha continued the anti-war diatribes which included their relating talks they've had with military officers and rank-and-file troops in Iraq. Murtha has said the military is broken, morale within the ranks is poor, we need to pullout immediately, and other defeatist rantings.
Murtha had just finished his presentation during the Virginia townhall meeting, in which he added that he feared a slow withdrawal may give people the impression the US achieved victory (God forbid Americans think we're victorious), when he opened the meeting for a question and answer session.
At that point a man stood and spoke:
"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.
(Excerpt) Read more at postchronicle.com ...
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.
Thank You for your service to our country.
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.
Probably because Seavey served in the Army not the Marine Corps.
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.
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."
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!
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.
I could care less...but the stress is exhilerating, so I reject the suggestion :)
a great excerpt, thank you.
BTTT
The DC chapter met and spoke with the Sgt.
Lets ask Buford
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.
Thank you.
Thanks for the ping!
Any more questions.
He is/ was a Sergeant in the UNITED STATES ARMY. He isn't/ wasn't a U.S Marine
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