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2004-05-26 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by growler 2004-05-26 2:27:45 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 God Bless your soul.

Thank you.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-05-26 2:38:02 PM|| 2004-05-26 2:38:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I read the story a few weeks ago when they buried him. Young kid, too, like they all are. Thank God there's still kids around this country with guts. You wonder sometimes...

Posted by tu3031 2004-05-26 2:44:07 PM|| 2004-05-26 2:44:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Where do we get people like this? Oustanding Marines!

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-05-26 2:57:38 PM|| 2004-05-26 2:57:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 A fine young man. Rest easy Marine.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-05-26 3:10:58 PM|| 2004-05-26 3:10:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I read this in yesterday's WSJ. It brought tears to my eyes with thanks to God that men like this are on our side.

Posted by remote man 2004-05-26 3:38:07 PM|| 2004-05-26 3:38:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh man.
I lost it here:
He says Cpl. Dunham responded: "I want to make sure everyone makes it home alive. I want to be sure you go home to your wife alive."
:(

Godspeed Marine.

Posted by Anonymous4021 2004-05-26 3:40:49 PM|| 2004-05-26 3:40:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 You won't read this in the NYT or see it on CNN (only if they need to exploit him - but he is white and comes from a small town - not a good candidate)but there are many, many more stories like this one coming out of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Chad, the Horn and other places. What this damn war needs is an "Ernie Pyle". But who the hell could he work for beside WSJ and Fox?

Posted by Jack is Back! 2004-05-26 3:55:04 PM|| 2004-05-26 3:55:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Damn,my heart grieves!
A finer young man never livied.

Posted by Raptor 2004-05-26 6:38:20 PM|| 2004-05-26 6:38:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I grew up twenty miles from this kid's home town. Super volunteer fire department, tiny high school, rural America at its finest.

I set up a page for Jason and other unsung heroes of the War on Terror, since we talked about not seeing them in the media the other day. LINK

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-05-26 8:37:13 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-05-26 8:37:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Memo to self on deployment:
use **the jihadi**, not self to smother grenade.
Helmets do not appear to contain blast sucessfully. :(

Posted by N Guard 2004-05-26 9:15:01 PM|| 2004-05-26 9:15:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 N Guard, turn helmet on its side and focus inner lens of helmet at jihadi.

I e-mailed the article to my family and friends with the following Memorial Day message:

In Somalia, Randy Shugart and Gary Gordon purposefully chose to lay down their life for a fellow soldier. Leaders, who placed a higher value on political expediency than on staying the course to achieve the goal that made the sacrifice necessary, betrayed their sacrifice. How many human beings have died in Somalia since we decided the price was too high? Would the World Trade Center still be standing if we had demonstrated the strength of our will in Somalia, Beirut or Vietnam?

How can we afford to bare the cost of success without achieving success? We paid a blood price in Vietnam, and then betrayed the sacrifice of our soldiers. Would the South Vietnamese government have stood if Congress had continued to provide funding after we evacauated our troops? We can't know, but we certainly did know that without American support the South Vietnamese government could not stand against a Chinese-backed North Vietnamese force.

One man once asked Congress, "How can you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How can you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" I ask: would Vietnam have been a mistake if we had stayed the course? We have a chance to find out today. The blood of two generations of American soldiers awaits final vindication through our demonstration of the will to stay the course.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-27 1:14:55 AM|| 2004-05-27 1:14:55 AM|| Front Page Top

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