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To: naturalman1975; Anoreth

Gunner Anoreth, USCG, would have done the same ... all 5”1’ of pure Germanic berserkergang.

Heroic figures like these veterans should get 100 times the amount of press the victims get. We don’t learn anything from reading about people who got killed because they were, unfortunately, in the wrong place at the wrong time. We learn from the stories of people who were will and able to really contribute when things went to hell.


7 posted on 11/03/2013 1:10:29 PM PST by Tax-chick ("The heart of the matter is God's love. It always has been. It always will be."~Abp. Chaput)
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To: Tax-chick

I disagree. The stories of the victims highlight why these crimes are so abominable. To ignore their stories simply reduces them to a mere backdrop to some thrilling action story. By knowing the stories of the victims, that they loved and were loved by others, we remain keenly aware of the magnitude of the evil that we are facing with these terrorists. We need to hear the stories of the heroes too, but not to the exclusion of the victims.


9 posted on 11/03/2013 4:51:38 PM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Tax-chick
Gunner Anoreth, USCG, would have done the same ... all 5”1’ of pure Germanic berserkergang.

I am sure she would have. I think almost anybody trained in a professional military would have. I would have tried (retired Naval officer) - I'm certainly not close to being up to SAS or any other special forces standard, but I'd still put my training up against these terrorist scum anyday.

To be clear, in case it wasn't, my statement about the value of a man with the right training and the right attitudes at the right place at the right time.

is not intended to suggest that these things are only true of a man. I've met plenty of women in the services who could do the jobs they had to do and were trained to do, as well as anybody else. But I learned that phrase in the form I used it, and it just doesn't sound right to me if I say person instead of man.

Having looked at the pictures of Gunner Anoreth I see on your profile pages, I can see no reason to doubt that she is a fine sailor and she'd be a fine shipmate, who could be relied on to the do the job she was called on to do.

On the strength of one link in the cable,
Dependeth the might of the chain.
Who knows when thou may'st be tested?
So live that thou bearest the strain!

- The Laws of the Navy (apologies to a Coast Guard sailor, but it's the best advice and tribute this old sailor can offer to a young one.)

10 posted on 11/03/2013 5:38:02 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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