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2008-03-06 Home Front: WoT

The American GI from Berlin - wounded in Iraq

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Posted by lotp 2008-03-06 11:03|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Way more balanced than typical German articles. Quite a story.

Posted by Menhadden Snogum6713 2008-03-06 11:21|| 2008-03-06 11:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Another American born in the wrong place.

Posted by Mike 2008-03-06 11:21|| 2008-03-06 11:21|| Front Page Top

#3 He fixed it though. I'm glad he made himself one of us, and hope he exercised his right to vote. Thank you, sir.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-03-06 13:03|| 2008-03-06 13:03|| Front Page Top

#4 From the bottom of page 1:
The father ends up saying: "I am in favor of peace." To which Jeff responds: "But someone has to achieve that peace." The father repeats: "I am in favor of peace."

This only upsets Jeff. Normally he tends to be quiet and calm. But now he raises his voice, his body tenses up and his words become deliberately hurtful: "And what are you doing so that we can have peace? How much longer do you think you'd be sitting around drinking coffee in fancy Berlin cafés if people like me didn't exist? If there was nobody to make sure you could live in peace? If there was nobody to fight terrorism?"

American vs. German, right there. I have to run, so I'll read the rest of the article later. I hope he did get sworn in as a citizen already, although I'm not sure what the wait is for volunteer soldiers.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-03-06 13:13|| 2008-03-06 13:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Thats the problem with the current "peace" movement - they are lazy bastards who arrogantly whine and condescendingly refuse to reason out the ultimate guarantor of their freedom to do so, all from the comfort of liberty, which their betters (the soldiers) are laboring to maintain.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-06 20:25|| 2008-03-06 20:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Wow. Quite a man. As are the Apache crew that medevaced him out.

Posted by tu3031 2008-03-06 22:02|| 2008-03-06 22:02|| Front Page Top

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