Posted on 07/24/2010 10:54:06 AM PDT by smoothsailing
May “LARDASS” Murtha have a special PLACE in HELL, for inflicting such HARM to our Great SOLDIERS.
is Red Rover OK?
He’s fine, Chappy. His work keeps him very busy, but I’ve been in contact with him the last couple of days. He may pop up here if he gets a chance. :-)
I really respect the work he did here. Let him know what’s he’s done didn’t slip by unnoticed.
This part by Helms is plenty sad, in my opinion. In the last part I heard a sadness in Chessani about the betrayal by leaders....something he didn’t say but I sensed.
In this part, I hear more pain about a betrayal by the Marine system that he knew as well as anyone.
I’m fearful that the next part will echo pain about a betrayal by a nation of Americans at the Mall.
My military experience says it’s clear that Chessani could have been a heavyweight some day in the Corps. You don’t command a 3500 man task force as an LTC and not have earned a lot of respect someplace for your abilities.
I’ll let Red know of your kind words. I think you’ll like Part 3, it will turn in a new direction. Expect it to be posted next week.
thank you for posting this.
the end of this article scares the beejeebers out of me.
Bump.
regards,
Thanks for posting these updates. It is important to do everything possible to avoid allowing this shameful episode to be swept into the memory hole.
As a personal observation, it is also been sad to witness here on Free Republic in these threads the discouraging number of active-duty and retired military Freepers who simply either don’t get it or are in deep denial regarding the gross injustices done these men and the depth of corruption in their revered “military justice system”.
In thread after thread I have watched them respond to the overwhelming evidence that these men were railroaded for a political agenda with the smug assertion that “the system worked”, which was based solely on the fact that eight of the nine were finally “acquitted” (no matter the personal anguish and financial devastation they and their families have suffered).
To me, the most important component of the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) is, or at least should be “Justice”. Those who keep stubbornly insisting that “the system worked” are wrong - it merely operated, and it didn’t deliver them “Justice” - merely verdicts.
ping
Well said!
It brought to mind another excellent post from Part 1 of the Chessani interview that was posted on that thread Thursday...
FTA: By then he knew that the brotherhood which ostensibly binds all Marines together apparently didn’t include the generals and colonels who were supposed to watch out for the welfare of their men.
How true!
Here's a quote from Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins as told to Tony Perry of the LA Times:
"The Marine Corps is an institution and a brotherhood. The institution will sacrifice one of its own to save the institution. The brotherhood will sacrifice itself to save one of its own."
Lt. Col Chessani and Sgt. Hutchins are truly part of the Brotherhood!
Thanks so much for posting!!!!
info ping to LtCol Chessani, part II
Tell him he's going to have to buy the 1st round when he gets back for making us worry
;~)
:o)
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