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"He told his men to "shoot first and ask questions later." After all, his men were Marines, not policemen."

To this day, I at times get mental images of what my nephew must have had to go through, while running for his life during mortar attacks upon the Fallujah MEK operating base in 2004, when he was spared but his Marine Sarg was blown into pieces perhaps twenty yards from him, as well as attacks not unlike what we read happened in Haditha while my nephew was on patrols in places just south of Baghdad, like Al-Mamudiya and Latifa some twelve clicks south of the capital, and recon patrols he participated in other enemy strong holds around the capital area.
I guess the images of some terrible things our Marines and soldiers have had to do, just in the Iraq and Afghan operations will stay alive in my mind. God bless all that serve in service of their country within the military.
As President Bush stated. They are among our finest Americans.