History (Bill Whittle - absolutely must read!)

ejectejecteject weblog ^ | March 29, 2003 | Bill Whittle

[Lando Lincoln]

HISTORY

Life during wartime.

There’s nothing I can say about the parade of still pictures, the faces on the television – except, perhaps, that they all seemed to share a fierce pride in their eyes, photographed for the first time in their Marine Dress Blues. Surely their families are proud of them. I certainly am, and I never got to know any of them. And now, I never will.

Names scroll in little yellow letters across the bottom of our glowing screens: Sergeants, and Captains, and Privates. These men have died for us. More will follow. You may be against this war, but even if you are, the fact remains: these kids died for all of us. We asked them to go, and they went.

All across this nation -- here and there, sparkling across the map like fireflies on a summer night – sedans are slowly rolling to a stop outside of small, modest homes. Men in uniform emerge, straighten their tunics, and walk slowly up driveways. Doorbells are rung. Maybe here and there smiles will evaporate in shock and surprise as doors are opened, but more likely the face will be one full of stunned realization that the very worst thing in the whole world has happened. And children will be sent to their rooms. And the men will speak in somber, respectful tones. And sons and mothers and fathers and wives will be told that the one thing they love more than anything in this world has been taken away from them, that their sons and daughters will not be coming home, that their fathers or mothers have gone away and will never come back, not ever.

Why do we do this? What could possibly be worth this?

[Lando Lincoln]

This is an absolute must read! Incredible pro-American piece. Bill Whittle has asked that we only post excerpts. You can read the whole essay at his site. His other essays are archived there also.

[Lando Lincoln]

Bill Whittle ping! Incredible as always!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks!

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

This might be of interest also!

TRANSCRIPT OF 3/30 CENTCOM BRIEFING

BRIEFER: GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS, CENTCOM COMMANDER

[Calpernia]

Thanks for the ping, I enjoy reading Bill Whittle almost as much as Oriana.

[BluH2o]

This is an absolute must read! Incredible pro-American piece.

My question ... where is the barf alert? Pro-American? Are we on the same planet here ... is this a joke?

[BluH2o]

Whoops ... sorry, I blew it ... didn't read far enough into the article, stopped at the president is a buffoon part and went into my rant mode :]

[tentmaker]

Absolutely, amazing incredible. If you read nothing else today, READ THIS NOW!
This is very long but worth every minute. It will inspire and educate and illuminate.

[MHGinTN]

As Chamberlain walked his line one last time, he smiled, and shouted, “Stand firm, ye boys of Maine, for not once in a century are men permitted to bear such responsibilities!" It is America that begins this current century bearing that responsibility, as a means for our own survival, for the preservation of this Union. Will our course in History establish peoples of likeminded goal? Only time will reveal it. But make no mistake, if we do not bear this responsibility of pre-emptive deterrence, this nations as it is will not much longer endure. The clash of civilizations will mutate US into something far different from the espoused values of our founding documents.

I have a suspicion that our armed Soldiers in the Persian Gulf feel the first inklings of this truth in their guts, yes guts (double entendre intended). Bravery before the enemy, realization welling up in their consciousness. We the People, viewing this morass from afar, had better awaken also, else the longer task ahead will faulter for lack of convinced resolve.

[Klein-Bottle]

Thank you,

What an incredible article. This really is a must read.

[alfa6]

Thanks for posting this essay by Bill Whittle, Lando.
I had posted a link to it on several threads this AM. Since I was at work I could only do brief comments.

It is indeed a darn good read.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[IncPen]

But make no mistake, if we do not bear this responsibility of pre-emptive deterrence, this nations as it is will not much longer endure. The clash of civilizations will mutate US into something far different from the espoused values of our founding documents.

Well-said ping.

Bartman, a must read...

[tictoc]

Yes.

Inspiring beyond measure.

Thank you for posting the link!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

an absolute must read! . . . read the whole essay at his site.

Done!

Dittoes!

[ThinkDifferent]

Once again, outstanding.

[ventana]

Did you read the article in full? V's wife.

[ventana]

Oh,caught your disclaimer! Great read, no? V's wife.

[MeekOneGOP]

[PoisedWoman]

All freepers and everyone else should read this amazing piece! I'm sending it to my peacenik friend whose nephew. Narine corporal Patrick R. Nixon, was just announced dead in Iraq in hopes that he will pass it on to the young man's father, who is a veteran and who needs to know that so very many of us believe this to be a just war. Young Patrick did not die in vain.

I especailly like this paragraph in Whittle's piece:

In the fall of 1999, the Clinton Administration took the hugely unpopular decision to invade Afghanistan to root out Islamic terrorists organized by a largely-unknown fanatic named Osama Bin Laden. Operation Homeland Security cost the lives of almost 300 servicemen, and did long-lasting damage to our relations with NATO, the UN, and especially Russia. President Clinton, at great political cost to himself and the Democratic Party, claimed to be acting on repeated intelligence that Bin Laden and his “phantom” organization – whose name escapes me – planned massive and sustained terrorist attacks against the United States. Peace protestors gathered between the towers of the World Trade Center in September, 2004 on the five-year anniversary of the illegal and immoral invasion, calling on President Gore to pay the UN –ordered reparations to the Taliban Government.

[MHGinTN]

BUMP TO THE TOP ... BTTT

[Lando Lincoln]

Greetings Alfa6! Hope you are well. Bill Whittle is special - check out his archives. They are all incredible.