Here are a few photos from the book (photographer Lucian Read was there).
Posted on 05/04/2007 3:54:32 AM PDT by RedRover
Incidentally, two of the Kilo Co. Marines who fought beside Kasal in the House from Hell are now awaiting Article 32 hearings for the incident in Haditha: Lance Corporals Justin Sharratt and Steven Tatum.
God bless our Marines.
A must get.
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Here are a few photos from the book (photographer Lucian Read was there).
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For more about this riveting war memoir by a Marine awarded the Navy Cross for valor during the battle of Fallujah, go to My Men Are My Heroes
To: Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House
Harry Reid, U.S. Senate Democrat Leader
Congress has passed and President Bush has vetoed H.R. 1591, the Iraq Surrender Act of 2007.
This legislation, which you worked to pass, sets a timetable for surrender. It pulls the rug out from under our troops. That is shameful and wrong.
Your actions have already emboldened the enemy. Violent jihadists now know that the elected leadership of Congress would undermine the troops by holding their funding hostage to demands for surrender.
This Congress would bring us back to the dark days of the 1970s, when the world doubted our staying power. Except only much worse. Withdraw in April 2008, and on May 1, Iraq becomes an unchecked den of terrorism at the heart of the Middle East — a new base for the same people that struck our homeland on September 11th.
I stand with our troops. I stand for victory. I support the President’s veto and will urge my representatives to vote to sustain it.
There can be one and only one outcome in Iraq: We win, they lose.
http://www.wewintheylose.com/
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I received this morning from BILL FRIST
I received a number of e-mails this morning asking for more information about Lois Romano’s piece in today’s Washington Post subtitled “Petraeus’s Lifesaver,” which describes emergency surgery I performed on Gen. David Petraeus (now leading our military’s operations in Iraq) for an M16 gunshot wound through his chest.
Three years ago I was standing with Gen. Petraeus on a hot, dusty compound in Iraq where he was leading exercises training young Iraqi soldiers. After observing the young recruits carry out their exercises, he gathered them around as he shared what happened on that fateful day in 1991.
Saturday, September 21, 1991, at “high noon,” as Gen. Petraeus recalls. Karyn and I were with Harrison at a sporting event when I got the trauma call.
“Dr. Frist, we have a Life Flight helicopter coming in from Ft. Campbell with a gunshot wound to the chest. A chest tube has been placed, but there’s continued hemorrhaging.” That meant get to the hospital . . . surgery would likely be necessary.
I rushed to Vanderbilt Hospital to be in the trauma unit before the helicopter arrived in the event we had to go straight to surgery. After quickly evaluating the soldier (who I learned had been accidentally shot in a training exercise), we went straight to the operating room to perform the thoracotomy and stop the hemorrhaging from the lung.
Gen. Petraeus – in his usual good humor – today describes the wound as “damage done by the M16 round that went right through my right chest — happily over the ‘A’ in PETRAEUS rather than over the ‘A’ in U.S. ARMY (as the latter is over my heart).”
Gunshot wounds to the chest are not at all uncommon at a busy trauma unit like Vanderbilt, but I knew this patient was a little different when he said so quickly, “If we’ve got a problem that needs to be fixed, let’s get on with it!”
Little did I know that same attitude would be at play in the world arena 16 years later. The straightforward decisiveness and call for action with results – traits we see from Gen. Petraeus so often today – reared their head in those few moments of conversation we had before I began to operate.
He talked me into discharging him early so he could return to Ft. Campbell to be with the soldiers he then led as Lieutenant Colonel (Commander of the 3d Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment in the 101st Airborne Division, “Air Assault”). His soldiers were first and foremost in his mind.
In the post-operation period we learned that our pasts shared a common thread. He had done graduate work at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where I had also studied.
The next time I heard from him was a few years later when another trauma surgeon called asking exactly what surgical procedure I’d done. Then Brig. Gen. Petraeus was in his trauma unit having suffered a badly fractured pelvis when his skydiving canopy collapsed about a hundred feet off the ground due to a wind shear at a drop zone near Fort Bragg, N.C.
Over the years, we’ve stayed in close touch. Running the Army 10-miler in Washington, D.C., together (really only the first 100 yards . . . then he left me in the dust!). Karyn and I visiting his wife Holly at Ft. Campbell when her husband was conducting the assault on Baghdad. Visiting in the Capitol on military issues. And joining him in Iraq on two occasions as Majority Leader.
Another reflection of Gen. Petraeus is the perspective with which he views events. When asked what he appreciates most about the recovery from his 1991 injury, he goes straight to thanking the soldiers who cared for him in the minutes after he was shot. As always, his soldiers are first.
On a related note, I believe Gen. Petraeus’s dedication to success in Iraq should be matched by Congress. That’s why it’s unfortunate the Democrats’ leadership insisted upon a spending bill that established artificial timelines for withdrawing our troops.
The President was right to veto the bill because mandating withdrawal dates will only strengthen our enemy, and several bloggers have launched a new Internet campaign (www.wewintheylose.com) to make that point clear.
Ronald Reagan’s quote “We Win. They lose.” expressed our country’s determination to defeat the Soviet Union in the Cold War – the same determination we must maintain to achieve success in Iraq.
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Wonderful. Thanks for the ping...
My pleasure, Albion. Giants do still walk among us.
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Amen. Our nation is truly, deeply, blessed.
Willie Nelson had no idea what he was talking about. My heroes have always been our military.
OOOOORAH!
Thanks for the heads-up. Looks like this is a must read!
Sorry i wasn’t trying to spam. I was just trying to give a story about General Patreas.
Won’t do it again. Sorry........
And may God in the coming days protect them from harm as they continue to do what must be done.
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