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2007-07-07 Iraq

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Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-07 10:04|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Stars and Stripes.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-07 10:13|| 2007-07-07 10:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Fixed. And thanks for your service and the service of all of our troops and contractors there.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-07 10:32|| 2007-07-07 10:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Thank you lotp, but no gratitude for me please. It's the young ones who go "outside the wire" on patrols, convoys, fly helos, or undertake thankless humanitarian missions and tangle with these bastards everyday that I'm concerned about. Save the ones who have gone before them, there are no greater Americans than these young people. Virtually no desertions as in other spots I've seen. No one quits. No one lets down their buddy, few grumble or go on sick call. Many are here on second, third, and fourth tours. They are bloody amazing. We should be proud of them, damn proud, and I know all Burgers are indeed. I just wish all America could see them. I only wish.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-07 10:49|| 2007-07-07 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 The liberals don't want to see the troops because the troops shame them. The fine men and women over there truly remind the liberals what pathetic wastes of humanity that they are. Thus, they do everything they can too tear the troops down.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-07-07 11:37|| 2007-07-07 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 After seeing the moonbats and loons marching in our 4th of July parade, losers all. Our combined veterans organization that plans and directs the parade were forced into letting them in - including code pink (commie witches so ugly dogs would sniff and run). It was pathetic but surprisingly they did not get much applause or acknowledgement but the VFW and American Legion and local reserve units did. I think the polls are out of whack and that there is still a lot of support for what we are doing in the WoT but we are nation of instant gratification now and it is waning.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-07-07 12:00|| 2007-07-07 12:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Virtually no desertions as in other spots I've seen. No one quits. No one lets down their buddy, few grumble or go on sick call. Many are here on second, third, and fourth tours. They are bloody amazing.

Besoeker, thanks for that! That's a very telling report on our guys and gal. We, of course, would only learn that here!

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2007-07-07 13:16|| 2007-07-07 13:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Besoeker, I both understand your redirection of gratitude to the guys/gals having all the fun outside the wire (my unvarying reaction to any thanks sent my way when I was there) and defy it by saying thanks!

You touch on something that I too struggle to convey to the open minds I can find back here: the efforts of our troops and other Coalition personnel and the Iraqis who are part of the team are heroic, their fortitude is unlike anything else seen today, and this confirms what a reasonable eye would see already in terms of the importance and rightness of the cause.

I knew it before I came back, but without souring me or warping my perspective, first-hand exposure to this for nearly two years has put everything in the real world in a different light, and rarely a flattering one.

In all of human life it seems there are those who bear most of the burden vs. those who benefit or go along for the ride, but the disproportion in this situation today (that is the number who benefit while doing little or nothing or actively impeding the effort) is astonishing and discouraging.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-07-07 13:32|| 2007-07-07 13:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Verlaine, read Kipling's "Sons of Martha."

Posted by Mac 2007-07-07 18:52|| 2007-07-07 18:52|| Front Page Top

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