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I just ordered "The Shooter" by Jack Coughlin. Have you read Charles Henderson's "Marine Sniper" about the amazing exploits of the top Marine sharpshooter in Vietnam?

It's painful to listen to journalists and pundits talking about anything military. They have no combat experience, no sense of what it means.

Chris Matthews is a pathetic little blowhard and social-climber and it's amusing to see him practically blubbing with rage and resentment every time he mentions Scooter Libby. But Matthews is not so funny when he talks about the military.

Peace Corps boy really went nuts over the Swift Vets. He really despised them, claiming that they were against Kerry because they "hadn't done as well in life as Kerry." What a jerk.

But recently he asked a guest on Hardball, "Do you think they (U.S. troops) will have to shoot their way out of Iraq?" I didn't see who he asked, but Matthews repeated it again, almost dreamily, loving it, "troops have to shoot their way out of Iraq?"

They, those to whom this country has given more opportunity for financial success than their talents or character merit, long for another fall of Saigon; the image of the U.S. helicopter rising from the roof of our embassy with desperate human beings clinging to the struts is meat and drink to their miserable souls, and they are panting to cause it again.

Meanwhile, there is "Marine Sniper," by Charles Henderson and Jack Coughlin's "Shooter: the Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper." And there are our troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Macedonia, South Korea, Germany, Japan, and at a hundred other stations, standing vigil for us, the heirs of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, whose memory we revere today.

Happy Independence Day. God Bless America.

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