[editor-surveyor]

This is one that should be required reading here.

[SJackson]

Thanks for the bump.

[SJackson]

You might like this.

[NCEaglette]

Thanks so much for the flag to this excellent speech! God bless you Brian Shul — you really are a HERO!

BTTT

[MissAmericanPie]

It's a great speech from a hero, unfortunately, we have more enemies of freedom within than without. The without we can deal with.

[onedoug]

Right you are. Thanks for the flag.

[UnBlinkingEye]

Thanks for the ping.

Bump.

[Crowcreek]

Nice survey work -- Thanx for the ping.

[mrustow]

Mystic chords of memory.

[185JHP]

Thanks for having me on your list. Condensing this essay into two words: "Character counts!" Our military exmplifies the concept, when properly led and supported. A lot of people find out the importance of this concept before they get out of Basic Training.

[mafree]

You're right- great article. Thanks.

[Buckeroo]

Thanks for pointing me to this article. It is GREAT reading.

[Silverdrake]

Thanks for the ping.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Thanks so much for the ping, Ed. What an extraordinary article. Just listed it as my first-ever bookmark. I'll repost it on a Dem site and send you a link. Very best regards, By.

[Dec31,1999]

Thanks for the ping. Here's a bump!

[E.G.C.]

Thanks for the bump and the article.

[ken21]

bumpo.

[browardchad]

In every fighter squadron I was in, there was a saying that we knew to be true, that said, when there was a true enemy, you negotiate with that enemy with your knee in his chest and your knife at his throat.

Thanks for the bump. I just got around to reading this today, after I had listened to a reporter from National Geographic on Fox and Friends this AM make comments to the effect that John Walker talked because CIA agent Span was screaming that he "would kill him." This guy's implication was that the US mistreated poor Johnny, who was only trying to kill fellow Americans.

Now Span is dead and Johnny is fast becoming a liberal cause celebre.

Is this country still too far removed from the reality of war, and an enemy that will stop at nothing to kill us?