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2003-05-10 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2003-05-10 12:18 am|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 As I quoted from Pliny in my first letter home after the start of the war; "It is Godlike for Mortal to assist Mortal; and this is the way to Immortality". The Blessings of Heaven will rest upon those warriers. All continues to improve in Iraq. Peace out

Posted by Bodyguard 2003-05-10 07:25:05|| 2003-05-10 07:25:05|| Front Page Top

#2 This is what it means to be an American Soldier.

My condolences and prayers for the families.

Posted by Ptah 2003-05-10 08:21:37|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-05-10 08:21:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Come on,Murat.Hero's giving all to save a child,give these Soldiers thier due.

Posted by Raptor 2003-05-10 10:42:29|| 2003-05-10 10:42:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I may be biased. I was a soldier, ditto my brother (Air Force, but that's almost the same thing), and my father and my uncles.
But I have to say it, and I think I would anyway.
The American soldier is God's noblest creation.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2003-05-10 18:40:03|| 2003-05-10 18:40:03|| Front Page Top

#5 From Stephen Ambrose -

In the spring of 1945, around the world, the sight of a twelve-man squad of teenage boys, armed and in uniform, brought terror to people's hearts. Whether it was a Red Army squad in Berlin, Leipzig, or Warsaw, or a German squad in Holland, or a Japanese squad in Manila or Seoul of China, that squad meant rape, pillage, looting, wanton destruction, senseless killing. But there was an exception: a squad of GIs, a sight that brought the biggest smile you ever saw to people's lips, and joy to their hearts.

Around the world this was true, even in Germany, even - after September 1945 - in Japan. This was because GIs meant candy, cigarettes, C-rations, and freedom. America had sent the best of her young men around the world, not to conquer but to liberate, not to terrorize but to help. This was a great moment in our history.

Posted by Don 2003-05-10 23:52:03|| 2003-05-10 23:52:03|| Front Page Top

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