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2009-02-28 Afghanistan

"If it costs me my life to protect our land, that's a small thing"

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Posted by mom 2009-02-28 11:06|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 According to a linked article in the Tribune, Sgt. Stream joined in 2005 at the nadir of the operation in Iraq, knowing that by volunteering there were real odds he might die in combat. He was 34 when he signed up, with an established career as an electrician, but he joined anyway. Let us as a nation continue to be worthy of such devotion.

Thank you, mom.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-02-28 12:36|| 2009-02-28 12:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Thanks does not do it justice, Sgt. But, I haven't sufficient vocabulary to describe the sentiment.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-02-28 13:25|| 2009-02-28 13:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Mods: Duty/Honor/Country graphic, por favor?

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2009-02-28 13:45|| 2009-02-28 13:45|| Front Page Top

#4 It's men like this in our nation that will ensure that Sir O'Bumble will not succeed in reducing us to serfdom. Free men make terrible slaves.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-02-28 13:59|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-02-28 13:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Thanks mom, For on my own I may have missed Scott Stream of Mattoon, Ill beautiful eulogy...

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2009-02-28 14:14|| 2009-02-28 14:14|| Front Page Top

#6 God Bless you and thank you for being the best of us!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2009-02-28 14:55|| 2009-02-28 14:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori...

Or, as Vicki Hearne say, about Pit Bulls:
(in Adam's Task)

"Gameness include the capacity to choose, knowingly,
Nobility and Triumph over mere survival.
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR."

We all die...will it be honorably, or cowardly?

Posted by Ming the Merciless 2009-02-28 22:18|| www.DarthProphet.com]">[www.DarthProphet.com] 2009-02-28 22:18|| Front Page Top

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