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Buzz Patterson is the man. I loved his book...”Dereliction of Duty”
Really showed the Hildabeest for what she is.
“Have you heard anything lately from Washington, D.C., or in the mainstream media nearly as cogent?”
You haven’t and you won’t...their agenda is pure politics, the soldier be damned.
“We are at war, Representative Murtha, and your actions and conduct give aid and comfort to our enemies…You have dishonored all of those who have fought and died up to the day you stood on the floor of the House of Representatives and demanded that we withdraw immediately. Representative Murtha, you have given aid and comfort to our enemies in a time of war. You have given them hope, which they have fast been losing, due to all of the victories and sacrifice by our sons and daughters on the field of battle in Iraq and Afghanistan. You have been honored by our enemies on the front page of Al Jazeera. . . ” —Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Stark, U.S. Army
PING to later.
Go to CARE PACKAGES For Our Troops on FR. We send boxes of food, toiletries, socks and handkerchiefs, dvds, and books to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. We include encouraging and loving notes in those boxes, too.
And there is a small group of A Gathering of Eagles and Minutemen on the big island in Hawaii who gather along the road with flags and signs to welcome troops either going there for training. returning from the war zones, or shipping out to war zones.
It brings tears to my eyes that their numbers are not in the cheering hundreds! God bless these people. God bless our troops, and God bless America.
DC Chapter Ping to quotes within the original post. Thanks, smooth.
“Some of the American public have no idea how much freedom costs and who the people are that pay that awful price. I think sometimes people just see us as nameless and faceless and not really as humans…A good portion of us are actually scared that when we come home, for those of us who make it back, that there will be protesters waiting for us and that is scary.”—-Specialist Jason Gilson, U.S. Army
“What angers and hurts me as a soldier is that they parade their anti-war views in the face of my brothers and sisters who are recovering from the same battlefield that I fought on and am still fighting on as I type this e-mail. Is there no honor or dignity left in the antiwar movement? Do they have no shame? Do they have no integrity? Do they have no heart? Do they have no soul? I can answer that with a simple no! How can they say they support the troops but protest where they try to recover from war? You interviewed one gentleman, and I use that term loosely, who stated ‘If I was injured I would want someone to speak for me like this.’ Well let me tell him something, we do not want you to speak for us and we do not need you to speak for us!” —Sergeant Mark Leach, U.S. Army
“Compared to the shock of the instant, violent death of a squad-mate standing right next to me or the excitement of a child looking at my uniform, the constant barrage of partisan politics, runaway brides and the activities of Paris Hilton seem utterly devoid of importance. I have marines slowly recuperating at hospitals in San Francisco, Washington, Bethesda and San Diego. Who is telling their stories?” —Captain Rory Quinn, U.S. Marines