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Welcome home Marines and thank you for your service.
1 posted on 07/27/2015 5:55:13 AM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

RIP men, thank you for the sacrifice.


2 posted on 07/27/2015 6:06:11 AM PDT by exnavy (Common sense seems to be uncommon these days.)
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Thank God they are home on American soil, how is it we find out about these things after the fact, how is it this ceremony was not covered by national news, it should have been headline in every news paper, it should have been bigger news than anything a candidate is say or doing, bigger than anything the POSPOTUS is doing.

As Americans, as a Republic, as a Nation it seems our priorities are at best perverted.


3 posted on 07/27/2015 6:08:08 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Kartographer

Welcome home Marines.

This retired Soldier salutes you.

RIP.


4 posted on 07/27/2015 6:49:13 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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When I was going through Quantico in 1968, we had several senior NCOs as instructors. These were lifers..30 year guys..who'd served in WW II, Korea, and Nam...they'd tell the stories of the island campaigns...Tarawa, Peleliu, Iwo, and the one thing I remember most to this day is their common belief is that nobody who wasn't there has ANY idea of what it was like. There is no frame of reference for the savage nature of those battles. I suppose the closest thing today would be if ISIS had 30,000 heavily armed troops occupying a province, and several divisions of Marines were sent in to dig them out..

It couldn't happen, because today it would be aired live, and Americans would not accept the casualties.

5 posted on 07/27/2015 7:34:39 AM PDT by ken5050 (If the GOP canÂ’t muster the moral courage to defund Planned Parenthood, they don't deserve the WH)
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