Posted on 08/29/2006 7:11:13 PM PDT by SandRat
Thanks for the ping.....HOO'AH to this young Marine...
Our soldiers have to make split second decisions and they shouldnt have to face an angry mob of media lynchers if they make the wrong one..."
That's a damned good point. Would that it were not so.
Yep, they still make em' like they used to. Note to Jihadists: Dont' tread on the U.S. and don't mess with the Marines.
Semper Fi Cpl Globis!
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Excellent! I wonder what Murtha has to say.
From doc1019 (post 18)"Marine training and quick thinking seem to go together." Marine training and angels seem to get along together quite well.
Just wait; in good time, the paid Iranian stooge will show up.
He'll whisper in a reporter's ear that it was an innocent mistake the driver made, and he saw the Marines put explosives in the truck and set them off to cover it up.
He'll even have Paliwood videos to "prove" it.
A day or so later, Green Helmut Guy will arrive (it's a looong drive from Tyre!) with his Corpsemobile, and the Reuters photographers will show him displaying the women's and children's bodies.
No MSM person will think to ask why all this now, when the incident was a month ago.
Thank God the forces in Iraq know how to keep things under wraps, until it is too late for the enemy to doctor them; they have learned well from all the "bombed weddings" early in the war.
I hope my post didn't seem to denigrate the awesome quality of the Marine and his training, but, rather, to point out that in the crunch, he is operating with extraordinary abilities, and I know a lot of people are praying for our military. Globis seems to have that extra something that I've read about many times.
It reminds me of Dick Winters in "Band of Brothers." Popeye Wynn, on the DVD, said Winters always was out front, leading the way and Wynn, very thoughtful, lost in thought for a few moments (back on the field of battle, no doubt), said he didn't know how Winters lived through it, "but .. he did." Winters is a believer and I am convinced his family's, especially his mother's, prayers preserved him time and time again. Case in point: when the American sentry shot at him and Moose Heyliger (sp?) as they walked shoulder to shoulder. The war was over for Moose, who was in the hospital till 1947 (and then discharged) after he was shot in the shoulder and most of his calf was blown away. Winters: not a scratch. The sentry shot from about 10 yards away.
There are other examples -- wonderful accounts of when an entire town would take up the cause of their deployed soldiers and not one soldier in the unit was hurt in combat; British prayers during Dunkirk, etc. I pray more communities take up the battle in prayer for their battling citizens.
I remember that "him" being sung to honor a few select commanders. Thanks for reminding me!
It's kinda funny how some of that stuff just stays with you, eh?
Semper Fi!
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