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Old 05-09-08, 10:21 PM
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Re: American Heroes

Those who will never serve can say what they want about the war, the President, or whoever. In a larger sense, their opinions remain irrelevant. What will never change is that Soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen will go where we send them to do what we need them to do. They alone will face nightmares that the rest of their fellow citizens will never even contemplate facing. They will make sacrifices that could never be asked of those whose idea of sacrifice is missing a Sunday football game. They will lose their comrades, and parts of themselves. No one made them sign up for this: they chose it. They chose it because they love the rest of us, and because they chose to serve in harm's way, we can all make the choices we want.

Honor them.
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Those who will never serve can say what they want about the war, the President, or whoever. In a larger sense, their opinions remain irrelevant. What will never change is that Soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen will go where we send them to do what we need them to do. They alone will face nightmares that the rest of their fellow citizens will never even contemplate facing. They will make sacrifices that could never be asked of those whose idea of sacrifice is missing a Sunday football game. They will lose their comrades, and parts of themselves. No one made them sign up for this: they chose it. They chose it because they love the rest of us, and because they chose to serve in harm's way, we can all make the choices we want.

Honor them.

Thank you!!!

It gets old hearing someone (90%) whine on campus about war this, president that, American killers this. Being that I am 29 and older than about 95% of these students of *higher* education, I just shake my head and hope that someday they will learn...
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Thank you!!!

It gets old hearing someone (90%) whine on campus about war this, president that, American killers this. Being that I am 29 and older than about 95% of these students of *higher* education, I just shake my head and hope that someday they will learn...
Maybe for some, age will change their minds. But more than likely, they'll pass their mindless whining down to their kids, who will be defended by our kids.

The same thing happened with the Vietnam generation. Those who hated both the war and the troops whined and complained about both, and passed their whining bitterness down to the next generation. Those who served passed a legacy of service down to their kids. Still today, you have the doers and the whiners. It happened with the last generation's war, and it will happen in the next generation's war, too.

Lieutenant Colonel Randolph C. White, U.S. Army, put it this way: "For my money, there are two kinds of men in this world; men of action, and all others."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbOcJ6kqJAA
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Re: American Heroes

With a Brother serving in the 1st Ranger BN, the funeral footage is hard to watch. He's in SERE school for three weeks right now, but will eventually head to the sandbox for a 5th time.

Thank you to everyone in this thread who served or is serving our country.
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With a Brother serving in the 1st Ranger BN, the funeral footage is hard to watch. He's in SERE school for three weeks right now, but will eventually head to the sandbox for a 5th time.

Thank you to everyone in this thread who served or is serving our country.
God bless and protect your brother, sir. How long has he been a ranger?
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5 years since he enlisted in the Army, and I approximately 3 since he got his Ranger tab. He wanted to go Ranger right out of the gate and his ASVAB scores were through the roof, but still had to wait.

He's been through Boot, Jump, Sniper, Ranger and now SERE- at this point I think he's running out of bases to go for training.
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5 years since he enlisted in the Army, and I approximately 3 since he got his Ranger tab. He wanted to go Ranger right out of the gate and his ASVAB scores were through the roof, but still had to wait.

He's been through Boot, Jump, Sniper, Ranger and now SERE- at this point I think he's running out of bases to go for training.
Let's see, he's still got a few places he could ask to go. he could go to Ft. Bragg if he felt like being SF or Delta
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He's expressed and interest in Delta, so you never know.
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Re: American Heroes

Lost a half-bro in the marines.

Have many friends over there right now, some coming home soon and some who just left last friday. More often than not, when I see a man or woman in uniform I thank them. Not for anything in particular, but just for doing what most of us won't, can't or are unwilling to do.

Paraphrased, because I can't find the article in American Rifleman from a few months back. It was a quote from a guy who payed the way for a bunch of marines to go through a specialty combat training program, extra and above what the military does. When asked why he did it, why he wrote a check for something like a hundred thousand dollars, he looked at the writer and said "...because to protect liberty, this country and its people you sign your recruitment papers or sign a check. Here's mine."

Damnitt, I wish I had the article still...gonna go dig it up, if I can, if I didn't toss that particular mag.
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