Posted on 04/04/2003 9:41:37 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:28 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Martin Savidge of CNN, embedded with the 1st Marine battalion, was talking with 4 young Marines near his foxhole this morning live on CNN. He had been telling the story of how well the Marines had been looking out for and taking care of him since the war started. He went on to tell about the many hardships the Marines had endured since the war began and how they all look after one another.
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WHERE DO THEY GET YOUNG MEN LIKE THIS?
Posted by MattGarrett
On 04/02/2003 2:41 PM PST with 46 comments
LT. SMASH - A View from the SandBox ^ | LT. SMASHYoung men like this
Posted by robjna
On 04/02/2003 12:35 PM PST with 78 comments
e-mail | e-mailWhere do they get young men like this?
Posted by FreeperinRATcage
On 04/01/2003 8:58 PM PST with 83 comments
Lt. Smash ^ | 04/01/03 | Lt. Smash
Almost all of them come from a proud Country known as 'The United States of America.'
God Bless our Troops.
Glurge: Martin Savidge of CNN interviews four selfless American soldiers serving in Iraq, offering them the chance to make phone calls home.I would LOVE to prove these smug self-righteous arbiters of "truth" wrong.
Status: False.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]
CNN live interview with Martin Savidge on Sunday, 30 March 2003:
Martin Savidge of CNN, embedded with the 1st Marine battalion,1st Marine Division, was talking with4 young Marines near his foxhole this morning live on CNN. He had been telling the story of how well the Marines had been looking out for and taking care of him since the war started. He went on to tell about the many hardships the Marines had endured since the war began and how they all look after one another.
He turned to the four and said he had cleared it with their commanders and they could use his video phone to call home. None of these Marines had been able to talk with their families for many weeks. The19 year old Marine next to him asked Martin if he would allow his platoon sergeant to use his call to call his pregnant wife back home whom he had not been able to talk to in over a month. A stunned Savidge, who was visibly moved by the request, nodded his head - yes. The young Marine ran off to get the sergeant.
Savidge recovered after a few seconds and turned back to the three young Marines still sitting with him. He asked which one of them would like to call home first? The Marine closest to him responded with out a moments hesitation, "Sir, if is all the same to you we would like to call the parents of a buddy of ours. Lance Cpl Brian Buesing of Cedar Key, Florida, who was killed on the 23rd of March near Nasiriya. We would like to see how his folks are doing and let them know their son died bravely."
At that Martin Savidge totally broke down and was unable to speak. All he could get out before signing off was, "Where do they get young men like this?"
Origins: Yes, Martin Savidge is a CNN correspondent currently embedded with the U.S.
1st Battalion, 7th Marines, now serving in the field in Iraq, and yes, he has filed a number of reports from the field. But the interview quoted above is not one of his: a search of CNN's archives for reports he filed on30 March 2003 produced only one dispatch about Iraqi villages and U.S. Marines feeling each other out, and that article did not include the touching exchange now credited to Savidge and being widely circulated in
Although this piece is fiction, one part of it-- an especially horrific part-- is gospel: LanceCpl. Brian Buesing was a Marine serving in that unit who was killed in action on23 March 2003 near Nasiriyah.
The piece is turning up in inboxes everywhere because it captures the essence of what we most want to believe about the young Americans now serving in Iraq, that they are heroically selfless. And on this we cannot help but agree.
Last updated: 3 April 2003
Perhaps FReepers can provide more conclusive documentation for this event...
Oh puuuhleeze. The only one being smug here is you. You need a CNN reporter (Savidge) to tell you that the Marines are heroes, while the real Marines are heroic enough for me without any gloss.
Accept the fact that this all-too-cute interview never happened and try to accept the everyday heroics of your US Marines.
What really frosts me is that you would rather have the made-up heroics from some asswipe sitting stateside than the real heroics that the Marines deliver every day in Iraq.
I assume that you are unaware (or intentionally ignorant) of the HUGE political bias of this allegedly NEUTRAL arbiter of the "truth" of "urban legends" - www.snopes.com - often including, but not limited to, their definition of what the "legend" actually is, so that they can then "refute" it in a manner consistent with their warped political philosophy.Still, it would be informative to track down the ORIGINAL kernel of truth around which this story developed a life of its own, IMHO.
As far as my need to learn about the noble character of our men and women in the armed forces from a member of the Communist News Network, I was (with many others) impressed by what seemed to be (but may not have actually been) what the lawyers call an "admission against interest" - made more powerful, coming as it does from what might have been expected to be a NEGATIVE source.
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