Man of Honor [Gen Pace Leaves Stars at "The Wall"

Red State ^ | 15 Oct 2007

[PurpleMan]

"At the Vietnam Wall we saw something unbelievable. We noticed three small index cards at the base of the Wall.

I knelt down for a closer look and noticed that a 4-star general's rank was pinned to each card.

The cards were personally addressed and said something like:

These are Yours - not mine! With Love and Respect, Your Platoon Leader, Pete Pace 1 Oct 2007

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs had laid down his rank for his boys who died in Nam. Oct 1 was the day he stepped down as Chairman."

[Hunton Peck]

Let's not talk about politics or journnalism now.

This is sacred.

[LZ_Bayonet]

Pace was born in Brooklyn, New York to Italian-American parents - General PEACE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pace

[DakotaGator]

Just finished e-mailing the story & link to Rush. Hope he airs it.

[PurpleMan]

How about sending it to MCLEF? Kahlstrom? Malkin? O’Reilly? Beck?, Ingraham? Hanninty? etc, etc, etc.

[Professional Engineer]

CATS: Bump for great honor

[Let's Roll]

The link shows a photo of the card he left - signed. Also photo of the wall with photographer reflected in the wall, taking pictures of ‘some’ cards anyway. The redstate poster of this info documented as well as he could.

Also, the Park Service picks up mementoes left at the wall twice a day. So anyone leaving something would have to know that their gesture was unlikely to receive public notice.

I believe it.

[petitfour]

Thanks for posting that link.

[silverleaf]

Nice gesture- but would have been more impressive if he hadn’t signed his name, which smacks of grandstanding. I presume his recipients didn’t need his signature on the note to know whose stars they were.

[mc5cents]

Have we ever before been in a war with half of the country's leaders taking action to keep us from victory? I will always believe that the war in Iraq would have ended years ago if it were not for our Dem legislators and our DBM encouraging the enemy to keep fighting.

Do you remember "The Most Trusted Man In America" declaring the Tet Offensive an American loss and disaster? Yes, it was none other than Walter Cronkite who it turns out later as we found out from the NV general(can't remember his name)were ready to quit the fight but ole Walter gave aid and comfort to the North Vietnamese and allowed them to keep fighting. They had lost that battle, big time,and knew it and were going to quit but good ole Walter gave them the news they needed to keep fighting.

So, what else is new?

[PurpleMan]

“...which smacks of grandstanding...”

I like what he did better than what you didn’t do.

[silverleaf]

Wow, that didn't take long to put down my opinion.

BTW- you have no idea what I do, or have done in my life. I haven’t signed my name to every good deed.

With all due respect......

[Sword_Svalbardt]

Respect is due to those who serve, and paid the ultimate price.

[SuziQ]

The Park Service picks items up each day, and the General likely knows this. He probably assumed that the cards would be picked up at the end of the day, and Oct. 1st being a Monday, and not a holiday, figured not many would see it. It just so happens that someone was there, did see it, and decided to publicize it.

[SuziQ]

This is the man who Bush was scared to renominate because the scumbag Democrats were prepared to toast him like a marshmallow.

Why is everyone making this assumption? It might very well be that Gen. Pace decided, on his own, to NOT put the men and women in Iraq in MORE danger because of the shenanigans that would be pulled by the Democrats in Congress, and their anti-war moonbat allies, to try to denigrate him upon his re-nomination.

[jveritas]

What a great man!

[maica]

>>>Now I don’t know what to make of CNN reporter Barbara Starr. <<<

^^^^^

The only show that I watch on CNN is Howie Kurtz’s Reliable Sources on Sunday mornings. The week before last he had Barbara Starr and Robin Wright, “diplomatic correspondent” for the Washington Post as guests to discuss the topic of the coverage of news from Iraq. Specifically the lack of coverage of the reports of Good News from Iraq for the decreasing violence numbers in September.

Both women looked at him with perfectly straight faces and said they saw no problem with the media’s failure to report the good news because, “it may be a trend or it may not be a trend. We have to wait and see.”

Howie then asked them if casualties increased would they wait to report that to see if it was a trend, and both women said that information would definitely need to be reported immediately because “it would be news.”

Neither one exhibited the slightest trace of embarassment or shame or even irony.

[SuziQ]

Yes, it was none other than Walter Cronkite who it turns out later as we found out from the NV general(can't remember his name)were ready to quit the fight but ole Walter gave aid and comfort to the North Vietnamese and allowed them to keep fighting.

That was Gen. Giap. I, however, do not believe Gen. Giap's insistence that the Chinese were not with the North Vietnamese forces on the ground at LZ X-Ray in the I Drang valley, during the battle portrayed in the book, "We Were Soldiers Once, and Young", and the movie about that book, We Were Soldiers. In the book, soldiers fighting in that battle commented about hearing Mandarin Chinese spoken on the radio chatter in the enemy ranks, and helicopter pilots flying over NV positions noted that there were some men who were larger than the others. Those were the Chinese, who were larger and taller than Vietnamese men.

[maica]

Well, aren’t you special!

[quadrant]

As 1968 began I was confronted with the choice of being drafted into the Army or joining the Marine Corps for two years. Somewhat reluctantly, for until that date I never considered becoming a Marine, I joined the Corps. My period of service was completely unremarkable, and I left the Corps with the exalted rank of corporal.
Forty years later I am thankful to God that I made the decision I did, especially when I read about the actions of Marines such as Peter Pace.
Semper Fi, General Pace.